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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be severe in Argentina.

Latin America contributes almost 10% of total global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), mostly from the energy sector, agriculture, and land use.

In Latin America, the increased release of open government data aims to strengthen the transparency and accountability of governments, build new business opportunities, and improve services for citizens.

In both the formal and informal sectors, women globally continue to lag behind men in hourly earnings and wages.

This project aims to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national economies and determine the effectiveness of current and potential policy responses in 11 developing countries around the world.

This project seeks to understand how governments and citizen groups have organized responses to the COVID-19 crisis, and the social, political, and institutional dynamics that shaped responses in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico.

This project investigates the dynamics that shape women's participation and careers in science and technology organizations in Argentina.

A 2008 United Nations report states that climate change is not gender-neutral — women are more negatively affected by its impacts.

The International Labour Organization reports that nearly one-fifth of Latin American and Caribbean youth were unemployed and two-thirds work in precarious jobs.

Over the last two decades, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has become one of the major international bodies searching for scientific and political agreements between developing and developed countries.

Throughout the developing world, young men and women face high unemployment coupled with strong feelings of dissatisfaction with their quality of life in contexts of weak governance and institutions, increased political instability, and growing state authoritarianism — factors that render societies vulnerable and play a role in radicalization.

Throughout the developing world, young men and women are facing high unemployment and experiencing strong feelings of dissatisfaction with quality of life amid weak governance and institutions, increased political instability, and growing state authoritarianism.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the cause of one-third of deaths in Argentina.

Front-of-package (FOP) food labels have been recommended by the World Health Organization and public health experts worldwide as an effective measure to strengthen understanding of nutritional information and help consumers make healthy choices.

Non-communicable diseases are responsible for more than half of the global burden of disease.

The global rise of childhood obesity has been dramatic.

Since its detection in Brazil in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread rapidly throughout the geographical range occupied by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).