Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 -- Back Cover.