Social panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean: Transforming education as a basis for sustainable development

Abstract

The Latin American and Caribbean region is navigating a complex scenario of great uncertainty that is deepening the impacts of a prolonged social crisis, with a silent and devastating impact on education. This edition of Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on education and its place in the policy discussion for recovery in the region. Since 2015 the region had already been seeing a deterioration in welfare levels, a stagnation in educational attainment and a slight rise in poverty rates. But the pandemic generated a major social crisis, which has now stretched into a third year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to come to an end, the region has not been able to make headway in recovering from its social impacts and regain the levels of social indicators registered in 2019, before the pandemic.