This publication is part of a series of books on comparative best practices in social development between Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia undertaken by the Institute for Social Development (INDES) and the Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). INDES is both a...

Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...

En este documento se caracteriza la pobreza rural en México y Centro América tanto a nivel agregado como familiar; se identifican determinantes de la pobreza, enfatizando el desarrollo regional y la inclusión económica; y se formulan conceptos para generar ingresos