The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 5

Education during the pandemic: an opportunity to transform education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant a prolonged economic and social crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, with profound consequences on the population’s well-being and a silent and devastating impact on education. The abrupt transition to distance learning, with one of the most extended school closures in the world, has had an unequal impact and highlighted pre-existing gaps in the region. The crisis has resulted in paradigm shifts, innovations and lessons learned concerning adapting to remote education, which impede education systems from returning to how things were and force them to restr…

Measuring Disability through Administrative Records in Education: Recommendations for Latin America

The report Measuring disability through administrative records of education in Latin America: diagnosis and recommendations to move towards regional harmonization presents a proposal for measuring disability for administrative records in education at the initial, primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education levels to be applied in Latin America and to move towards a framework of comparability and harmonization between countries in the region of statistical information on students with disabilities.…

Cómo medir la discapacidad a través de los registros administrativos en educación: recomendaciones para América Latina

El informe “Medición de la discapacidad a través de los registros administrativos de educación en América Latina: diagnóstico y recomendaciones para avanzar hacia la armonización regional” presenta una propuesta de medición de discapacidad para registros administrativos en educación para los niveles inicial, primario, secundario, terciario y superior para ser aplicados en América Latina y que permita avanzar hacia un marco de comparabilidad y armonización entre países de la región de información estadística sobre estudiantes con discapacidad.…

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 2

Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Medición de la discapacidad a través de los registros administrativos de educación en América Latina: diagnóstico y recomendaciones para avanzar hacia la armonización regional

En los últimos años, los países de América Latina y el Caribe han mostrado notables avances en la inclusión de la medición de la discapacidad en los sistemas de información, específicamente en censos de población, encuestas de hogares y registros administrativos. Sin embargo, persisten grandes dificultades a la hora de generar información comparable entre los países, en particular en fuentes de información como los registros administrativos, en que el uso de la información con fines estadísticos aún es incipiente. En este documento se analizan los desafíos y oportunidades para la armonización …

Caribbean Outlook 3: Economic recovery and repositioning in the era of COVID-19. Policy Brief

The economies of the subregion were hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those dependent on tourism. As a result, the Caribbean has seen a reversal of the hard-won gains achieved in growing their economies and reducing unemployment and inequality. The inflation stemming from pandemic supply chain disruption, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, has made the sustained uptick in economic performance beyond pre-pandemic levels unlikely, notwithstanding strong growth estimates for 2021 and 2022. The last two years have taught the region that continued ‘business as usual’ is…

Revista CEPAL no. 138

Documento actualizado el 15 de febrero de 2023.…

Claves de la CEPAL para el desarrollo Nº 13: Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe

En este número de “Claves de la CEPAL para el Desarrollo”, referido principalmente al impacto de la prolongada crisis social en la educación, se presentan los mensajes claves de la edición 2022 del Panorama Social de América Latina, publicado por la CEPAL en noviembre de 2022.…

Panorama Social da América Latina e do Caribe 2022: A transformação da educação como base para o desenvolvimento sustentável. Resumo executivo

Esta edição do Panorama Social da América Latina e do Caribe, correspondente a 2022 da série anual publicada pela Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL), aborda como tema central a educação e seu lugar no debate das políticas para a recuperação na região. Embora desde 2015 se observasse na região uma deterioração nos níveis de bem-estar, estagnação nos avanços do desempenho educacional e leve aumento da pobreza, a pandemia de COVID-19 gerou uma crise social significativa que se prolonga pelo terceiro ano. Apesar de se esperar o fim da pandemia, a região não conseguiu avanç…

The Pandemic is an Opportunity to Transform Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a silent educational crisis that threatens to affect the educational and labour trajectories of children, adolescents, and young people. Prior to the pandemic, education in the region was already facing significant inclusion and quality challenges. Hence, it is necessary to take advantage of the opportunity not only to recover but also to transform the region's education systems.…

La pandemia como una oportunidad para transformar la educación en América Latina y el Caribe

La pandemia por COVID-19 ha generado una crisis educativa silenciosa que amenaza con afectar las trayectorias educativas y laborales de niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes. Previo a la pandemia, la educación en la región ya enfrentaba importantes deudas de inclusión y calidad, por lo que es necesario aprovechar la oportunidad no sólo para recuperar sino también transformar los sistemas educativos de la región.…

Report of the first regional seminar on social development. Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: The prolonged crisis as an opportunity for restructuring

This document contains the report of the first regional seminar on social development, entitled “Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: the prolonged crisis as an opportunity for restructuring”, organized by ECLAC on 13–15 October 2021. This seminar would not have been possible without the support of the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (OREALC/UNESCO), the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) at UNESCO Buenos Aires and the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional O…

The location of the upper socioeconomic stratum of Santiago’s population in the period 1977–2017: deconcentration or expansion of its traditional habitat?

The appearance of suburbs inhabited by the upper socioeconomic stratum in Santiago suggests a dispersion of this group and a loss of importance for the barrio alto, the area in the east of the capital that is its traditional habitat. However, the barrio alto has continued to grow upward and outward in both demographic and real-estate terms. Migration is decisive in this process. Therefore, this paper conducts a detailed and rigorous investigation of its role in the location and redistribution of the socioeconomic strata in Santiago, using microdata from Chile’s last four official censuses. The…

Localización del estrato socioeconómico superior de la población de Santiago en el período 1977-2017: ¿desconcentración o ampliación de su hábitat histórico?

La aparición de suburbios de estrato socioeconómico superior en Santiago sugiere una dispersión de este grupo y una pérdida de importancia del barrio alto, que ha sido su hábitat histórico. Sin embargo, el barrio alto ha mantenido su dinamismo demográfico e inmobiliario, tanto vertical como horizontal. Dado que la migración es decisiva en la aparente desconcentración territorial del estrato socioeconómico superior, se investigará con detalle y rigor su papel en la localización y redistribución de los estratos socioeconómicos de Santiago. Con ese fin, se usarán los microdatos de los últimos cua…

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Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022: Transforming education as a basis for sustainable development

Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2022 has four chapters. Chapter I presents the relevant macroeconomic background in terms of the evolution of per capita GDP, employment, household income distribution and the consumer price index, and looks at how income inequality and poverty have changed over the past two decades (2002–2021). The chapter also discusses changes that occurred in social stratification during the pandemic. Chapter II addresses the worrying silent crisis of education as another of the pandemic’s major consequences, as well as the successive crises that have acc…

Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe 2022: la transformación de la educación como base para el desarrollo sostenible

En la edición 2022 del Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe se analiza, entre otros, la llamada crisis silenciosa de la educación y la necesidad de avanzar en su transformación como base para el desarrollo sostenible en la región. El documento se organiza en cuatro capítulos. El capítulo I, junto con presentar antecedentes macroeconómicos relevantes en materia de evolución del PIB per cápita, el empleo, la distribución del ingreso de los hogares y la evolución del índice de precios al consumidor, aborda la evolución de dos décadas de desigualdad de ingresos y pobreza (2002-2021). Asim…

Poverty Rates in Latin America Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Warns

Despite the slight decline recorded in 2021, projections indicate that poverty and extreme poverty rates remain above pre-pandemic levels in 2022 in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) warned in its Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 report, which was presented today in Santiago, Chile and which addresses education as a central issue along with its role in the debate on policies for the region’s recovery. “After a sharp increase in poverty and a slight increase in income inequality in 2020 as a result of the …