This paper explores the potential the community college model holds for Latin America. Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experience introducing short post-secondary courses and non university institutions, sometimes as a result of private initiative, sometimes as a matter...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) welcomes the opportunity that the World Summit on Sustainable Development offers the development community to reflect on regional trends and the major challenges facing our member countries in environmental sustainability. The IDB prepared this document...

En este documento se analiza la organización de las escuelas secundarias en América Latina y el Caribe. Se tratan temas como son la provisión de escuelas para un conjunto estudiantil cada vez más heterogéneo y la triple función de preparar a los alumnos para la educación superior, formar...

This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

This strategy (GN-2069-1) looks at development options for the agriculture sector, which is especially important to small and medium-sized farmers. It aims to facilitate the preparation of loan and technical cooperation programs, improving their quality, and building consensus within the Bank...

La estrategia de medio ambiente (GN-2208-4) es un instrumento rector cuyo objetivo fundamental es lograr mayor eficacia en el respaldo que el Banco brinda a los países prestatarios de América Latina y el Caribe para que éstos alcancen sus metas de desarrollo sustentable. Establece principios...

Esta estrategia (GN-2069-1) se enfoca en las opciones para el desarrollo agroalimentario. Pretende facilitar la preparación de programas de préstamo y cooperación técnica, mejorando su calidad y generando consenso en el Banco y en la región sobre los asuntos críticos para el desarrollo...

This Strategy (GN-2067-3) summarizes what is known about how to improve primary and secondary education in Latin America and the Caribbean and provides a set of objectives and strategies to guide the IDB in its support of primary and secondary education over the next decade. The paper defines...

This paper asks a deceptively simple question. After over a decade of concern about and investment in primary education, what have been the results and how much further does the region need to go before it has achieved a primary education of quality for all children? The paper creatively reviews...

La estrategia sobre educación primaria y secundaria (GN-2067-3) resume lo que se conoce acerca de cómo mejorar la educación primaria y secundaria en América Latina y el Caribe y presenta un conjunto de objetivos y estrategias para guiar al BID. Se definen las cinco áreas críticas de la...