Do Our Children Have a Chance? : A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Title:
Do Our Children Have a Chance? : A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author:
Molinas Vega, José R.
ISBN:
9780821389027
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (154 pages)
Series:
Directions in Development
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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 opportunities and personal circumstances under analysis. The data is representative of some 200 million children living in 19 countries over the last 15 years. Second, it compares human opportunity in LAC with that of developed countries, among them the U.S. and France, two very different models of social policy. This allows for illuminating exercises in benchmarking and extrapolation. And third, it looks at human opportunity within countries-across regions, states and cities. This gives us a preliminary glimpse at the geographic dimension of equity, and at the role that different federal structures play.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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