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Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Cuñas radiales que explican medidas de prevención del COVID-19 para pueblos indígenas de la región en 12 lenguas originarias, inglés, español y portugués.

Conoce las experiencias de las Delivery Units de tres países: Brasil, Colombia, y Estados Unidos, en su apoyo a las respuestas de los gobiernos a la pandemia del Covid-19 para extraer lecciones e intercambiar propuestas de cómo potenciar y mejorar las Delivery Units ante los nuevos desafíos que enfrentarán los países bajo la “nueva normalidad”. ¿Quieres conocer más? Visita www.iadb.org/Gobernarte

To close its infrastructure gap, the Latin American and Caribbean region needs more than investment in new structures. It needs to become more efficient at investing in infrastructure and regulating a new range of services that have the potential to disrupt the energy, transport and water sectors. These are some of the key points of the new IDB report - From Structures to Services: the Path to Bet...

Governments in the Caribbean region have been relatively successful in flattening the infection curve of the Coronavirus in their countries. Geographical isolation is a contributing factor, but decisive and determined government action has been effective in reducing community transmission. As these countries begin to open their domestic economies, they are still battered by external shocks. This i...

The labor market has been in constant transition, adapting to new technologies and responding to the quickly changing demands of consumers. COVID-19 has only been a spark to speed this transition along. Laura Ripani (Principal Specialist and Coordinator of the Future of Work Agenda) and Fernando Pavón (Skills Development Specialist for the Caribbean) share their views on the labor market in the Ca...

It is no secret that Caribbean Tourism has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis. Further, the decline in tourism activity has negatively impacted the region’s growth prospects and led to unprecedented spikes in unemployment. Economists in IDB’s Caribbean department have described the COVID-19 shock to tourism as an “unprecedented extreme outlier event,” and it’s believed that gover...

Latin American and Caribbean countries are among the most dependent in the world on the tourism sector. A recent publication from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist's Henry Mooney and María Alejandra Zegarra: “Extreme Outlier: The Pandemic’s Unprecedented Shock to Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean,” develops a new global measure of economic dependence on tourism—the Tourism D...

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, given the region’s dependence on tourism and travel, are highly exposed to the economic shock caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The tourism sector’s contribution to GDP will be severely impacted by the restrictions implemented to mitigate the spread of the virus. We'll explore what initiatives are in place to support tourism organizations, government...

La crisis del COVID-19 plantea el desafío de asegurar que los gobiernos atiendan las necesidades de la emergencia con eficiencia, transparencia e integridad. Los desastres naturales, las crisis humanitarias o epidemias generan la necesidad de desembolsar recursos de forma extremadamente rápida. En este contexto, los organismos de control son llamados a actuar de manera proactiva y creativa para as...

Research has shown that violence against women and children (VAWC) - particularly intimate partner violence (IPV) and severe punishment of children - tend to increase during times of stress and restriction of movements, such as during epidemics. In this podcast, experts from the region discuss why periods of high stress can cause violence to increase and what can be done at the individual and poli...

Financial development, access and inclusion are a critical piece of the puzzle for economic growth and development. Our economists have examined the country-specific barriers restricting financial sector development in Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana, and identified where reforms can be made in these countries. Henry Mooney (Economics Advisor), Laura Giles Alvarez (Barbados Country Economist) and Vic...

Hacemos un repaso por los principales temas de los Diálogos Regionales de Política 2020. No se pierdan nuestros diálogos especificos sobre transporte de carga y suministros esenciales, transporte público y gestión contractual y reactivación del sector de la construcción.

Hacemos un repaso por los principales temas de los Diálogos Regionales de Política 2020. No se pierdan nuestros diálogos especificos sobre transporte de carga y suministros esenciales, transporte público y gestión contractual y reactivación del sector de la construcción.

Hacemos un repaso por los principales temas de los Diálogos Regionales de Política 2020. No se pierdan nuestros diálogos especificos sobre transporte de carga y suministros esenciales, transporte público y gestión contractual y reactivación del sector de la construcción.

Hacemos un repaso por los principales temas de los Diálogos Regionales de Política 2020. No se pierdan nuestros diálogos específicos sobre transporte de carga y suministros esenciales, transporte público y gestión contractual y reactivación del sector de la construcción.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused several 2020 Caribbean festivals carnivals to be canceled or postponed. Festival stakeholders are being forced to rethink their offerings to maintain their appeal and remain profitable. Listen to our conversation with Caribbean cultural and entertainment leaders on the future of festivals in the region (this was originally recorded during a webinar on June 9, 20...

In COVID-19 times, governments have a responsibility to save lives but this goes hand in hand with the responsibility to save livelihoods. Locking down parts of our economies is necessary so that the human capital stock can be kept healthy and economies can have a solid footing on which to rebound. In the Caribbean, transmission of economic shocks from past crises, such as 9/11 and the Global Fina...

We were joined in a webinar on April 20, 2020 by Allison Peart, Managing Director of A. Peart Advisory Services Ltd of Jamaica, Zulfikar Ally, President of The American Chamber of Commerce in Guyana and Vincent Vandepool-Wallace, Founder of The BedfordBaker Group. Our panelists held a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the economic slowdown on businesses, options for adaptation and diversifi...

What is a risk and how do you manage them in projects? What are positive versus negative risks and how do you stay on top of them? What is the difference between a problem and a risk and how do we apply this to the coronavirus outbreak? Sheries Ruddock, Operations Associate at the IDB, discusses with Golda Lee Bruce, Development Storyteller and Communications Coordinator at the IDB, how critical r...