by user_matias | Aug 3, 2024 | Article Eco, Comment Articles
May 1, 2024 – NEHA BANSAL NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF). In the decades since the IYF was proclaimed, demographic shifts, technological transformations, migration,...
by user_matias | Oct 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Comment Articles
August 10, 2024 – RENATA NARITA RIO DE JANEIRO – Despite robust labor regulations, Latin American countries have exceptionally high turnover rates. Roughly 24-44% of workers in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru quit each year, and...
by user_matias | Oct 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Comment Articles
August 20, 2024 – CARMEN ESTRADES AND FLORENCIA AMÁBILE MONTEVIDEO – As populations age worldwide, the demand for care services is reaching unprecedented levels, presenting complex challenges for all societies, but particularly those in the developed world. This is...
by user_matias | Oct 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Comment Articles
August 31, 2024 – ELISA BELFIORI AND YANEL LLOHIS BUENOS AIRES – Despite committing to nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to limit global warming, countries have struggled to meet their emissions-reduction...
by user_matias | Oct 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs
August 12, 2024 – APARAJITA DASGUPTA Previously published on VoxEU on August 7, 2024. Expansion in access to public infrastructure has been found to improve a host of development outcomes. This column uses variation in the access to paved roads through a large-scale...
by user_matias | Oct 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs
September 10, 2024 – SOLANGE GONÇALVES AND ELOIZA ALMEIDA Previously published on VoxEU on September 5, 2024. The urban wage premium – the positive wage differential between more and less dense geographic areas – is rarely estimated separately for men and women. This...