from the conference, No. 18, includes the following articles: Trade Liberalization and Employment in Developing Economies … Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

This study assesses poverty in the microenterprise sector in Latin America, presenting stylized facts on potential … poverty risk factors at the household and individual levels. The goal of the paper is to describe the main trends in the … region and the scope of the paper is limited to a descriptive analysis of poverty risk factors based on the nature of the …

patterns of indigenous poverty over time. In addition, the first section examines some of the historical determinants that can … explain the disproportionate poverty confronting Latin America's indigenous peoples today and provides an overview of diverse … with measures to combat indigenous poverty through the policies and programs of governments and international actors …

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 …

information which will assist the planning of poverty alleviation programs in a number of countries in Latin America. The specific … aim of this report is to identify the conditions of poverty experienced by indigenous peoples in Nicaragua, to outline as … far as possible the structural causes of this poverty, and to recommend measures which might be taken to alleviate it. …

This article discusses the plight of poor women around the world and the feminization of poverty. The evidence is …

, concerning the issue of indigenous peoples and poverty reduction in Latin America. In introducing the Guatemalan study, it is … complex issues to be addressed in reducing the poverty of indigenous peoples in a country like Guatemala; and also to prepare … the poverty facing indigenous peoples in Guatemala. …