The increasing availability of financial data can be effectively used to drive innovations that help close the gender gaps and address the barriers that prevent the poor from benefiting from financial services.
This project, which is being implemented with the African Centre for Economic Transformation, is a comparative study of selected African countries’ experiences with the financial inclusion of women and youth.
While fish resources are critical to the livelihoods of 700 million people worldwide, they are not achieving their full potential in Africa.
In Colombia, food security is a national concern, and indigenous communities of Nariño are among the most food insecure in the country.
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world when ranked in terms of homicides per capita. With an average of 15.5 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, the region's homicide rate is more than double the global average.
Storms, floods, droughts and other extreme events resulting from climate change are likely to have a negative impact on water availability and quality.
Understanding an increasingly complex knowledge economy demands economic, social and environmental data from a wide range of sources.
The emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases affecting Brazil today result from complex interactions between natural and human systems.
Vector-borne diseases make a significant contribution to the disease burden in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), amounting to about one million years of potential life lost due to premature mortality or disability (DALYs).
The Mercosur Economic Research Network (Merconet) was created in 1999 to generate knowledge to inform the Mercosur regional integration process.