Analysis

Towards Quality Education for All

Education quality if one of the biggest challenges for Latin America – and also one of the main opportunities.

Ariel Fiszbein

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Untangling the Soft Skills Conversation

Building soft skills can help lead to better academic performance, employment and wage opportunities, and healthy behaviors.

Tamara Ortega Goodspeed

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RIO Data Release

The following is a sample of RIO’s bi-monthly data release related to money services businesses (MSBs) and the Honduran remittance market.

Laura Porras, Manuel Orozco

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Fourteen Lessons for Improving Learning

Fourteen lessons that may be helpful for organizations seeking to improve learning in Latin America’s education systems or in other regions of the world.

Jeffrey Puryear

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RIO Newsletter

The following is a sample of RIO’s monthly newsletter related to net migration flows from Mexico and Central America to the US.

Manuel Orozco, Laura Porras

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Removed, Returned and Resettled

The emigration and return of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans each year, often under difficult circumstances, represents a profound challenge for the region.

Manuel Orozco, Julia Yansura

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Apprenticeships: Basic Concepts

Apprenticeships are part of technical and vocational education (TVE) and combine formal education with learning in the workplace.

Belén Cumsille

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Central American Economies in 2015

One of the greatest challenges that the Central American region faces is ensuring that economic development is sustainable and equitable.

Manuel Orozco, Julia Yansura

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What to do with the PISA Results in Latin America?

During the last decade, Latin American countries have strongly increased their participation in international assessments, especially in the Programa Internacional para la Evaluacion de Estudiantes (PISA-International Program for Student Assessment) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and to a lesser extent in the TIMSS2 and the International…

Pedro Ravela

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