, income and poverty status. …

In this paper we estimate the size of shelter induced poverty by housing tenure in Latin America and determine whether … through a public or privately provided mortgage for a given valued program house) increase or decrease shelter induced poverty …. Shelter induced poverty describes the situation where a household, after paying for housing (rent or mortgage plus utilities …

This paper compares the dynamic consistency of targeting methodologies that use multidimensional welfare indicators … the Alkire and Foster (2008) dual cutoff multidimensional poverty methodology is proposed. This extension provides a … consistent targeting algorithms. …

both instruments by improving their design and targeting. …

In this paper we evaluate the targeting efficiency of Latin American housing programs of the demand-side- ABC type … countries. However, there is no systematic evaluation of the targeting efficiency of these programs. We find that most programs … are not progressive and have inefficient targeting (high slippage and low coverage rates). Even reducing slippage to zero …

proposes and implements a replicable methodology for a comparative cost analysis of three similar poverty alleviation programs …

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

approximately 40 million indigenous people of the hemisphere. In addition to the critical issues of poverty reduction, self … Seminar on Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability, organized on the occasion of the First General …