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The booklet outlines evidence on SCP graduates’ labor market outcomes, supply considerations, and the factors that make a program “good,” followed by policy directions to realize SCPs’ potential.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nO V E R V I E W  \nThe Fast Track to New Skills  \nShort-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean  \nMaría Marta Ferreyra  \nLelys Dinarte Díaz Sergio Urzúa Marina Bassi  \nOVERVIEW  \nThe Fast Track to New Skills  \nShort-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean  \nMaría Marta Ferreyra, Lelys Dinarte Díaz, Sergio Urzúa, and Marina Bassi  \nThis booklet contains the overview, as well as a list of contents and other front matter, from The Fast Track to New Skills: Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1706-9 . 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