This paper analyzes the implications community participation has on education and examines World Bank practices related to community participation in education.
This report examines the targeting of nutrition and health programs to protect the poor in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico) during the economic crisis that began at the end of the 1970s and persisted through most of the first half of the 1980s.
This report analyzes the evolution of poverty and inequality in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) from 1986 to 1996, with projections to 1998. It reviews the policies which have been advocated and/or implemented to reduce poverty.
The figures presented in this publication describe the health,nutrition, and population(hnp)status and service use among individuals belonging to different socio-economic classes.
Previous hypothesis on urbanization in Latin America are found to be inadequate, and new ones are proposed. Examination of data on urbanization in the Caribbean basin presents evidence that contradicts past hypotheses about the urbanization process. Urban primacy is found to depend on whether the decentralizing potential of the new outward oriented model of development is actualized. Spatial polarization among income groups depends on the ability of middle and lower income groups to implement strategies to cope with economic emergencies. The ability of the informal sector to absorb labor depends on the state of the economy and the government's ability to reactivate it. Rather than attempting to standardize urbanization characteristics for the Latin American region as a whole, researchers should combine global trends with particular national realities.
