Uruguayan Children with "high" level of opportunity
World Bank. Access to education and housing in the region
A Uruguayan child is nearly twice as likely to end a Guatemalan school. In the same family as accessible housing and basic services, according to a World Bank report was published today.
"Mary is a six year old girl who lives in a rural area of \u200b\u200bGuatemala. She has four brothers and his mother is an illiterate widow with an income of about U.S. $ 180 month, working as a farmer. What are the chances that Mary will become a reputable lawyer or a college professor? Not very high. "
So begins the report by the World Bank to be known from today. Analysis relieved in 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Human Opportunity Index (HOI). The index measures the opportunities necessary to children's access to education and basic services in a range that goes from 0, a situation of absolute deprivation, 100, basic universal coverage.
To measure access to education, the report evaluates the timely completion of the sixth year school and attendance at schools between 10 and 14 years. To evaluate access to housing responsible for the report took into account residents' access to safe water, sanitation and electricity.
The study collects data from the last decade (1995-2005) in one of the regions where there is considered the greatest inequalities. In this sense, the picture presented by the World Bank Vice President Pamela Cox, is dramatic. "The richest 10% of the population captures 40% of total income while the poorest 10% get only 1%. To a large extent this is because not everyone has the same opportunities," he said. WB
research allows conclude that between a quarter and half of income inequality "is due to personal circumstances endured during childhood." URUGUAY
UP. Argentina, with 88% IOH, Chile, with an IOH of 91% (the highest in the region), Costa Rica, and Uruguay 86%, 85% are the four countries that are closer achieving universal opportunities.
"Some countries like Costa Rica and Uruguay show a relatively low income inequality and a relatively high level of opportunities for their children," said one of the paragraphs of the report.
At the other end of the table are the most off-target and where inequalities are abysmal. Guatemala at a rate of 50%, Honduras and Nicaragua 53% to 46% are in this group. But some countries still below these measurements that the World Bank report described as "puzzling." Such is the case of El Salvador. Another group identified a number of countries in "inequality of income trap", the WB brand situations as more worrisome. Such cases of Bolivia and Honduras.
be recalled that a study by sociologist and consultant to United Nations, Gustavo de Armas, "Public Expenditure and Children in Uruguay", revealed that in Uruguay there are 7 times more elderly poor children in that condition. In that report, De Armas warned that the gap would be reversed very slowly, with improvements in the integration of the country and in the labor market.
85% figure is the Human Opportunity Index for Uruguay, the report prepared by the World Bank for Latin America.
From "El País Digital, Uruguay
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