Aldo Lima Santos, a resident of the Japãozinho neighborhood, no longer fears floods thanks to the infrastructure works that have been carried out in his municipality of Aracaju, due to improved fiscal management.
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Imagine your first day of school. You feel nervous and uncertain. Will I make friends? Will I miss my parents? Your friendly new teacher greets you, but you don't understand her.
In 2016, Verónica Berestovoy was a senior studying environmental engineering at the National University of Itapúa, in the Paraguayan heartland, when a tweet stopped her in her tracks. Little did she know that this tweet would launch her on a fascinating knowledge journey.
The IDB promoted the added value of private sector activity in Suriname by improving the business climate and innovation, spurring knowledge in manufacturing and high-tech technological services.
João knows every cracked sidewalk on his 9-mile trip to the building where he receives physiotherapy. Over the course of many journeys, he has memorized each irregularity, each dangerous intersection.
Twenty centimeters. That is the average height difference between 19-year-old males born in Guatemala and the Netherlands, according to a recent study by the Imperial College of London.
It’s a startup created, literally, from ashes. From this waste, the Brazilian company Marina Tecnology is creating new materials that seek to make the chemical market sustainable, in addition to solving an ecological threat and creating jobs.
Since she was a child, Laia Barboza grew up surrounded by consoles such as Nintendo and Ataris in Maldonado, a city 130 kilometers east of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
The region is aging. Latin America and the Caribbean is going through a demographic transition where women have fewer children, giving space to a veteran population that needs more (and better) medical coverage.
The reality of workers around the world has changed radically since the first social security schemes were developed in the 19th century.
Nature thrives on Jamaica’s Blue and John Crow Mountains.
Some ten miles separate El Dorado airport from the National Cancer Institute (INC), on opposite sides of Bogotá, Colombia.
Carmen, who requested a pseudonym to protect her identity, is a 38-year-old Honduran. She is also a five-year survivor of physical and psychological abuse by the father of her child.
Basic energy, water and sanitation and transportation services are everyday necessities of consumers: their quality of life depends on their accessibility, quality and affordability.
In the heart of Suriname’s capital, the Paramaribo historic center is a storyteller.
Although Latin America and the Caribbean hold a third of the planet’s drinking water, the region’s water-related challenges grow every day, and its need for solutions is increasingly urgent.