This new CIESPI bulletin, the result of a partnership with the University of Edinburgh and several Indian colleague organizations, is titled, Shaping Youth Futures: Youth Livelihood Options in Creating Inclusive Cities. 

Low-income youth in urban Brazil face many challenges moving to work in the main stream economy. These challenges include lack of qualifications, inappropriate qualifications, lack of family knowledge and connections to main stream jobs, color and gender and physical separation in low-income communities from middle-income and downtown communities.

RIZZINI, Irene; BUSH, Malcolm. Using early childhood research to inform and influence public policy: An example from Brazil. Sage publications. In: Early Childhood Research. Editors: Ann Farrell, Sharon L. Kagan, Kay M. Tisdal, 2015.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging and global overview of the intersection of research with practice and policy in early childhood development. Irene Rizzini e Malcolm Bush, from CIESPI/PUC-Rio are among the authors with the paper: Using early childhood research to inform and influence public policy: an example from Brazil (chapter 25, p. 419-431).