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Toward #towercos 4.0. On passive telecommunication infrastructure in Latin America

Ángel Melguizo, Raul Katz ˙ Mar 9, 2023 ˙ Latin America Advisor

Tower deployment has been growing steadily in Latin America. In this article, the authors discuss telecommunications tower infrastructure in the region.Read more +

Demystifying the “Green Resource Curse”: Managing LAC’s Critical Minerals Boom

MK Vereen ˙ Mar 2, 2023 ˙ Voces

Will Latin America's critical minerals spur a "green resource curse" this century? What kinds of policy tools are available to mitigate the risks?Read more +

Latin America and the Caribbean: Promoting Rule of Law and Governance Through South-South Cooperation

Santiago Canton, Michael Matera, Maria Jaraquemada Hederra, Mark L. Schneider ˙ Nov 10, 2022 ˙ Voces

Latin America and the Caribbean face stubbornly high levels of poverty, inequality, political polarization, violence, corruption and impunity.Read more +

RELAC Initiative: An Opportunity to Raise Climate Ambition While Leaving No One Behind

Simón Ladino Cano ˙ Jul 27, 2022 ˙ Voces

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Despite many challenges in implementation, RELAC presents an opportunity to transform electricity systems while improving energy equity region-wide.Read more +

Opportunities for Renewal in the Teaching Staff – Interview with Verónica Cabezas

Verónica Cabezas ˙ Mar 16, 2022 ˙ PREAL Blog

This blog is complementary to the event "Opportunities for Renewal in the Teaching Staff" and includes an interview with Verónica Cabezas, president of the board of Elige Educar.Read more +

Are You My Teacher? The Gradual Return to School in LAC, a Time to Heal Deep Wounds and Urgently Recover Schooling and Learning

Emanuela Di Gropello, Ariel Fiszbein, Juan Diego Alonso ˙ Nov 30, 2021 ˙ PREAL Blog

Sol at the school gate keeping social distance before entering.

School reopening is a much-awaited stage across the region and gives way to new challenges, schooling return, and learning recovery. World Bank Group’s Acting Now report noted the impacts of LAC’s education systems closed.Read more +

How to Incorporate Early Childhood Care and Education Staff Competence Frameworks into Public Policies?

Gladys Gerbaud Navarro, Daniela Saez, Javier Quesada ˙ Aug 19, 2021 ˙ PREAL Blog

Picture of a girl sitting, with a pencil in her hand

On July 8, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Inter-American Institute for Children and Adolescents (IIN-OAS), with the support of the LEGO Foundation, held an online event to present a competence framework for early childhood care and education staff.Read more +

Chile’s Coal Phase-Out: Opportunities for a Just Transition

Sarah Phillips, Ignacio Albe ˙ Jun 11, 2021 ˙ Voces

Chile’s initiative to fully phase out coal generation by 2040 will be critical for the Southern Cone country to comply with its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement. However, despite the urgency of slashing Chile’s emissions, ensuring that coal workers are not economically abandoned in the process exemplifies one of the main challenges for policymakers surrounding the just transition.Read more +

Chile’s Constitutional Convention: The Ascent of the Anti-Establishment Left and the Death of the Moderate Center

William Skewes-Cox ˙ Jun 3, 2021 ˙ Voces

Chilean protesters on the street in 2019 holding signs that say

The failure of the right to obtain sufficient seats for a veto, the near total rejection of the moderate parties that historically have governed Chile, and the stunning power of anti-establishment, independent leftists all point towards a Convention that will draft a thoroughly leftist new constitution.Read more +

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