The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) was launched to work toward an enlarged South American economic space anchored in principles of sustainable, efficient, equitable development of the region. This report (RE-338) presents the findings of OVE's...

This work will try to measure the differentiated effect that the changes in the economic conditions have on the families in terms of labor participation of the spouses and other members of the family, as well as its effect on the scholar attendance of children and young people.

Our aim in this document is, exactly, to present this transition between the paradigms in the case of Brazil, and to develop a central point in this transition: the construction process of the Unique Register (RU) [Cadastro Único]* for the families placed under the poverty line.

Total Western Hemisphere exports to the world fell by over 6 percent in 2002, continuing the decline recorded in 2001 but at a lower rate. The international recovery evident in early 2002 subsequently lost momentum and the downturn has continued to have adverse effects on the trade of the Americas.

This report is a case study aimed at shedding some light on the magnitude and determinants of Brazil's exporting costs. Two exporting firms were selected to provide information on these costs: one exports primary goods (soybeans), while the other exports manufactured goods (agricultural...

Over the last decades, social policy has been conceived from a sectorial perspective. This means that social policy responds more to government's organizational activities than to people's necessities; as if social problems could be approached from a unilateral perspective; in the same way that...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002. ODEF initiated operating in 1985 and the credit program in 1989. Became self-sufficient in 1996. It...

This document analyses the experience of community participation and sustainability in the Local Development Programme (PRODEL) in Nicaragua. The goal of PRODEL is to improve the physical and socioeconomic conditions of families living in poor communities in eight small and mid-size cities. This...

This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the transformation of five territories in four countries of Asia (Malaysia and People's Republic of China) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions...