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Avitabile, Ciro

Latin America and the Caribbean Education Global Practice
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Nutrition, Cash transfers, Economics of Education, Health Economics
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Last updated: December 5, 2023
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Ciro Avitabile is a senior economist in the Latin America and the Caribbean Education Global Practice, where he works on supporting investments for human capital development based in Lima, Peru. Before joining the World Bank, he was an economist at the Inter-American Development Bank.

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    At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017-05-02) Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Avitabile, Ciro; Botero Álvarez, Javier; Haimovich Paz, Francisco; Urzúa, Sergio
    Higher education (HE) has expanded dramatically in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) since 2000. While access became more equitable, quality concerns remain. This volume studies the expansion, as well as HE quality, variety and equity in LAC. It investigates the expansion’s demand and supply drivers, and outlines policy implications.
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    Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2019-10) Andrews, Kathryn; Avitabile, Ciro; Gatti, Roberta
    Using a new data set comprised of publicly available information, this paper provides cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social spending that covers the three sectors of health, education, and social protection has proven to be a challenging task. Only for health spending is there high data coverage over time and across countries. Education and, especially, social protection display large gaps. Increases in social sector spending have generally been slow and unsteady. Although education spending in low-income countries has seen a stable and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly correlated with spending in the three sectors. Finally, this paper discusses future research required to provide guidance on how much and what type of investment is needed to achieve high levels of human capital.