A major part of the problem of providing high-quality welfare and social protection to the members of a society lies in the issue of how to distribute the responsibility for these services within the society -a problem referred to in this paper as the care dilemma . Different historical junctures and forms of social organization have witnessed different responses to this dilemma. Strictly speaking, the solution is a variable that depends on culture, level of institutional development, the distribution of the resources of power in a society and the ability of the different relevant s…
This document is part of an effort to take inventory of the current state of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) statistics in Latin American and Caribbean countries, particularly in National Statistic Offices (NSOs). In this study fifteen countries are investigated regarding three sources of information: Internet research, e-mails and phone calls and through the meta-data questionnaire Status of information society statistics in National Statistic Offices, applied to NSOs of Latin America and the Caribbean during August 2004 in the frame of OSILAC. The effort concluded with a wo…
Con objeto de impulsar un salto en calidad y equidad de la educación, las reformas educativas en la que todos los países de la región se han embarcado, con distinta intensidad y enfoque, en general concurren en transformar diversos ámbitos del sistema, a saber: los contenidos y procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje; el financiamiento del sistema y los mecanismos de asignación de recursos; la distribución de funciones entre el Estado y la iniciativa privada; la descentralización de la gestión y, en algunos casos, de la planeación educativa; el monitoreo de la calidad de la oferta educativa median…
The reforms being undertaken by all the countries in the region (although with varying emphases and intensity); with a view to promoting a leap forward in quality and equity in education are all, generally speaking, focused on transforming various parts of the system: teaching and learning processes and content; financing of the system and resource allocation mechanisms; the distribution of functions between the State and private enterprise; decentralization of management, and, in some cases, education planning; monitoring of the quality of education services through review of teaching practic…