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…