Related Publications: Guatemala

High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers.

IFPRI evaluated the Government of Guatemala’s Community Day Care Centers Program to determine its effects on children’s nutrition and on their mothers’ wages and employment opportunities.

Since the late 1970s dramatic economic changes have taken place in the agricultural sector in the highlands of Guatemala.

Since the late 1970s dramatic economic changes have taken place in the agricultural sector in the highlands of Guatemala.