and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

Unit that provides a poverty profile of microentrepreneurs, with data on labor standards, social security, environmental …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

field of microfinance.Abstract: El acceso de la mujer microempresaria a los servicios financieros es clave para sus …

Esta nota presenta un análisis de la trayectoria del Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades en México, con el …

Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …

Targeted Human Development Programs (THDPs) are integrated poverty reduction programs designed to increase the capacity …-school and school-age children. Their main long-term objective is to eradicate the structural causes of poverty by fostering … investment in the next generation's human capital. A secondary objective is to alleviate poverty in the short term, mainly …

This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings … reductions in poverty during the last two decades - a transformation that they achieved by taking substantially different paths …

(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …