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Policy interventions can help boost adolescent girls¡¯ aspirations and opportunities through exposure to role models, vocational training including life skills training, and conditional cash transfers.

In Brazil, a peer-led intervention focused on sexual & reproductive health & students' aspirations at public high schools, resulted in significantly ??improved contraceptive use &??decreased teenage pregnancy rates.

The recent poverty assessment in Dominican Republic provides a detailed snapshot of the five challenges to overcome for achieving inclusive economic growth.

Six facts to understand the reality of women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Women between 25 and 35 years of age are 7 percentage points more likely to be poor than men of the same age.

During the life cycle, poverty among men and women evolves differently. As individuals enter productive ages, poverty drops, but it does so at a faster rate for men than for women.

Andrea, like many others in Peru, endured the devastating impact of job loss in a nation heavily affected during the pandemic. Her situation worsened as she suffered violence at home.