Uruguay - Equality of Opportunity : Achievements and Challenges

The report is organized around the main achievements and challenges Uruguay faces from the perspective of expanding opportunities for children in the XXI century, a perspective that is consistent with the country's stated social welfare goals and upper middle-income status. Chapter two presents the main achievements and challenges faced at the national level in access to opportunities for key goods and services: education, health, housing and infrastructure, and information and communications technology. It also presents results over time using limited comparable data. Chapter three explores the geographic distribution of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) in depth as well as the distribution of gains and losses over time. Both chapters measure opportunities to access a basic set of goods and services and an expanded set more consistent with Uruguay's relative development, whenever data allows. This report also offers some policy applications of the equality of opportunity framework as well as policy considerations to support an opportunity-enhancing environment. Chapter four provides an assessment of how recent education, social, and technological programs may fare from the perspective of expanding opportunities to children. Chapter five concludes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2010-10-01
Subjects:	ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, ACCESS TO EDUCATION, ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ACCESS TO PRIMARY EDUCATION, ADULT POPULATION, ADULTS, AGE GROUPS, AGED, ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN, ATTENDANCE RATE, ATTENDANCE RATES, BABIES, BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BASIC SANITATION, BASIC SERVICES, BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES, CHILDREN WITH ACCESS, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, DRINKING WATER, DROPOUT, DROPOUT RATES, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATION POLICY, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL QUALITY, EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, ELDERLY, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, FAMILY INCOME, FORMAL EDUCATION, FULL POTENTIAL, FUTURE GENERATIONS, GENDER, GRADE RETENTION, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GROSS NATIONAL INCOME, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH INSURANCE, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH REFORM, HEALTH SECTOR, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH SYSTEM, HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, HIGHER GRADES, HIGHER REPETITION, HOSPITAL, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, ILLNESSES, IMMUNIZATION, INCOME INEQUALITY, INFANT, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INFANT MORTALITY RATES, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKET, LEARNING, LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH, LITERACY, LITERACY RATES, LIVE BIRTHS, MEASLES, MEDICAL CARE, MIDDLE SCHOOL, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RATE, NATIONAL EDUCATION, NATIONAL GOALS, NATIONAL LEVEL, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, OLD AGE, OLDER CHILDREN, PARENTAL EDUCATION, POLICY MAKERS, POLITICAL PARTIES, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY LEVEL, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, PRIMARY SCHOOL SYSTEM, PRIMARY SCHOOLING, PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY, PROGRESS, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, QUALITY SERVICES, REPEATERS, REPETITION RATES, RESPECT, RURAL AREAS, RURAL POPULATION, SANITATION, SANITATION FACILITIES, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCHOOL DROPOUT, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, SECOND LANGUAGE, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SECONDARY SCHOOLING, SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, SIBLINGS, SIGHTS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL POLICY, SOCIAL SERVICES, SOCIAL WELFARE, SOCIETIES, SOCIETY, STUDENT ASSESSMENT, STUDENT ATTENDANCE, TRANSPORTATION, UNIVERSAL ACCESS, UNIVERSAL COVERAGE, UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT, URBAN AREAS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, VULNERABLE GROUPS, YOUNG WORKERS, YOUTH,
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