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Alternative patterns of development as a response to youth enemployment and social exclusion in Latin America

Raso Delgue, Juan - In: Youth unemployment and joblessness : causes, …, (pp. 257-273). 2012

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Crime, Violence, At-Risk Youth, and Responsible Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cohan, Lorena - 2012

(GDP) to violence. Particularly worrisome is the fact that youth in the region (typically defined as 15-24 year-olds) and … on the most common types of risk factors help prevent youth from becoming engaged in at-risk behavior, including crime … promising ideas for future Bank operations that seek to link sustainable tourism and at-risk youth programs. …

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La innovación social y las nuevas tendencias en el voluntariado : los jóvenes y su participación en las ONGs de hoy y del futuro

Telmo Navós, Oscar (ed.); Prestipino, Carlos Angel (ed.) - 2017 - 1a ed.

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Youth : realities and challenges for achieving development with equality

Trucco, Daniela (ed.); Ullmann, Heidi (ed.) - 2016

the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The youth population must be included in …

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Health inequalities in Latin American and the Caribbean : child, adolescent, reproductive, metabolic syndrome and mental health

Bancalari, Antonella; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Buitrago, … - 2023

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups in the population. Systematic disparities in health...

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Adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean : Examining Time Allocation Decisions with Cross-Country Data

Menezes-Filho, Naercio A. - 2011

This paper uses micro data from a collection of household surveys conducted in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to examine the time allocation decisions of adolescents. We find that an econometric model with household and country-level variables, when applied simultaneously to all...

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Teenage Childbearing in Latin American Countries

Núñez, Jairo - 2011

In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most Latin American and Caribbean countries, teenage fertility has not changed at the same pace or in the same direction. Given that early childbearing is deleterious for both mother and child, we describe differentials in the levels and...

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Social Mobility in Latin America : Links with Adolescent Schooling

Andersen, Lykke - 2011

This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility. It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers schooling gaps

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Critical Choices at a Critical Age : Youth Emancipation Paths and School Attainment in Latin America

Filgueira, Fernando - 2011

This paper discusses how young people become adults in Latin America and how that process affects educational attainment. An examination of four countries at three levels of development shows that individuals` educational attainment is closely linked to the decisions that young people make...

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Teenage Childbearing in Latin American Countries

Flórez Nieto, Carmen Elisa; Nunez, Jairo - 2002

In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most LAC countries, teenage fertility has not changed at the same pace or direction. Given early childbearing is deleterious for both mother and child, we describe the differentials in the levels and trends in teenage childbearing and...

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