Do our children have a chance? : : the human opportunity report for Latin America and the Caribbean / / Jose R. Molinas Vega ... [and others]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2012
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 154 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 305.23098
• Soggetto topico: Children - Latin America - Social conditions; Children - Latin America - Economic conditions; Children - Caribbean Area - Social conditions; Children - Caribbean Area - Economic conditions
• Altri autori: MolinasJose R. <1966->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview Do Our Children Have a Chance? A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean; How Does the HOI Work?; Is Human Opportunity Expanding in LAC?; Latin America versus Rich Countries; Country, State, City; What Can Be Done?; Chapter 1 How Far Are We from Ensuring Opportunities for All? The Human Opportunity Index; Key Concepts: Basic Goods and Services, Universality, Equality of Opportunity and Circumstances; Constructing a Measure of Progress toward Basic Opportunities for All ; Empirical Considerations for Constructing the Human Opportunity Index Annex A1.1. A Numerical Example of Computing the HOI; Annex A1.2. Numerical Illustration of the Decomposition of the HOI; Annex A1.3. The Algebra of Decomposing the Human Opportunity Index; Annex A1.4. Indicators; Annex A1.5. Choosing the Aggregation Sequence; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2 The State of Human Opportunities for Children in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region: 1995-2010; Progress in Improving Human Opportunities in LAC-Although Universality Remains a Generation Away ; Opportunities for Children to Access Basic Services in the LAC Region Expanding Human Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1995-2010; Unpacking Changes in the HOI: Scale, Equity, and Evolving Circumstances; The Inequality of Opportunity Profile; Annex; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Human Opportunities in a Global Context: Benchmarking LAC to Other Regions of the World; HOI for Quality Education; The HOI for Housing; Understanding the Long-Run Evolution of the HOI; Conclusion; Annex; Notes; Bibliography ; Chapter 4 Human Opportunities at the Subnational Level in Latin America and the Caribbean The Subnational Human Opportunity Indices: Some Stylized Facts; Heterogeneity in Subnational HOIs; Equalizing Regional Opportunities; Summary and Conclusions; Annex; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Boxes; 1.1 Computing the Penalty for Inequality of Opportunity; 1.2 The Six Steps of Building the Human Opportunity Index; 3.1 The PISA Data; Figures; 0.1 The 2010 HOI for LAC; 1.1 Percentage of 16-Year-Olds with Access to Safe Water: Equal Opportunity Allocation ; 1.2 Percentage of 16-Year-Olds with Access to Safe Water: Unequal Opportunity Allocation 1.3 Penalty for Inequality of Opportunity and the Human Opportunity Index; 2.1 Ranking of the Overall HOI, 2010; 3.1 HOI Access to Sanitation, Public Connection Only; 3.2 HOI Access to Sanitation, Public and Private Connections; 3.3 HOI Freedom from Severe Overcrowding, More than 1.5 People per Room; 3.4 HOI Overcrowding and Sanitation: United States 1960-2005 and France 1968-1999; 4.1 Overall HOI circa 2008 for the Capital City and the Rest of the Country ; 4.2 Overall HOI circa 2008 for the Capital City and the Rest of the Country
• Sommario/riassunto: The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the current pace, it would take, on average, a generation for the region to achieve universal access to the basic services that make for human opportunity. Intra-county regional disparities are large, and barely converging.This book assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in LAC. It builds on the 2008 publication, "Measuring Inequality of Opportunity," in several directions. First, it uses newly-available data to expand the set of oppo
• Titolo autorizzato: Do our children have a chance?
• ISBN: 1-283-37509-5; 9786613375094; 0-8213-8902-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789710203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.