the financial services offered by a range of institutions, including commercial banks, credit unions, and nongovernmental … institutions within and across countries. It shows that, in addition to nongovernmental organizations, credit unions and some … commercial banks, can and do provide appropriate savings, credit, and other financial services to microentrepreneurs in general …

Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that … and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is …

Framework Foreign Sector Public Accounts and Debt 3. Coordination of macroeconomic policies …

prices and larger volumes at the same time that a multi-lateral debt reduction initiative trimmed roughly one third of the … public external debt. The political economy setting of this environment entails a new hydrocarbons law that automatically … surplus and a public debt path that may fall short of being pleasant in the presence of unfettered fiscal spending and …

Framework Foreign Sector Public Accounts and Debt 3. Coordination of macroeconomic policies …

prices and larger volumes at the same time that a multi-lateral debt reduction initiative trimmed roughly one third of the … public external debt. The political economy setting of this environment entails a new hydrocarbons law that automatically … surplus and a public debt path that may fall short of being pleasant in the presence of unfettered fiscal spending and …

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 …