The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 1

Digital Public Goods: Driving the Development of Digital Public Infrastructure in the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 8 No. 10

The Hummingbird Vol. 8 No. 8

The Hummingbird Vol. 8 No. 7

Selected online learning experiences in the Caribbean during COVID-19. Policy Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …

The Hummingbird Vol. 8 No. 5

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The Hummingbird Vol. 8 No. 1

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles calls for multi-donor trust fund for higher education and research in the Caribbean

The crisis being faced by the higher education sector in the Caribbean brought regional Prime Ministers, Ministers, senior policy makers, representatives from the United Nations, international donor agencies and development banks together virtually on Wednesday, October 14, 2020. Among the outcomes at the high level meeting was a call from Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) for a multi-donor trust fund to invest 600 million US dollars over three years for the Caribbean’s human capital development and the establishment of a …

The Hummingbird Vol. 7 No. 10

Report of the twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

The Hummingbird Vol.7 No.8

Advancing the Decade of Action for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.10

Nuevo número de Revista CEPAL analiza las instituciones laborales y el rol del Estado desarrollista

El debilitamiento de las instituciones laborales, así como el papel histórico del Estado desarrollista, y las inversiones de capital de riesgo en empresas latinoamericanas, son algunos de los temas principales que aborda el nuevo número de Revista CEPAL, disponible desde hoy en internet. En su edición N⁰ 128 (agosto 2019), la principal publicación académica del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas incluye en total 9 artículos de destacados especialistas y profesores internacionales, quienes analizan diversas áreas de la situación económica y social de varios países de América Latina. En …

CEPAL participa en taller técnico sobre políticas públicas para la reducción de la pobreza desde un enfoque multidimensional

La reunión estuvo dirigida a autoridades nacionales de los Estados miembros del SELA, responsables de las políticas públicas focalizadas en las áreas de salud, empleo joven y educación, así como a representantes de organismos regionales e internacionales, expertos y académicos vinculados con las políticas públicas.…

Mainstreaming youth in sustainable development

The Hummingbird Vol.4 No.10

Sustainable Development Goals implementation in the Caribbean