Engagement in extracurricular activities increases students’ behavioral and cognitive skills yet despite their ability to help improve academic performance, students from low-income communities are at least 10 percent less likely to participate. Addressing this disparity is vital to maximizing educational outcomes.
Financial inclusion levels in Mexico continue to be embryonic, FinTech companies appears to be promissory contributors and partners in the fight against financial exclusion. Their technological innovations, when applied to financial markets, has the potential to increase the supply of financial services and lower the costs of providing them to unattended individuals.
In this introductory piece of the Second Systems Thinking Special Edition, Paulina Lucio Maymon explains how to address the social injustice of indigenous peoples in Mexico using Systems Thinking – a method to analyze a diverse array of policy-relevant issues.