Tag: World Bank Latam

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 08:18 UTC

  One fifth of youngsters don’t study or work but still may have a chance

  

  By Jorge Familiar (*) - One out of every five Latin Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 wakes up every morning with no school to attend or paid job to do. Bogged down by economic constraints, early pregnancy, violence or low expectations, they are the so-called “ninis” — ni estudia, ni trabaja (neither studying nor working) — and they are more than 20 million strong.