Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for …. Insufficient education is cited as the principal vector of poverty throughout the life cycle and across generations. …

substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … integration. The depth and speed of the reforms and the absence of public policies to ease the transition contributed to the … Globalization Conference, Inter-American Development Bank, Brasilia, October 20, 2003. …

Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin … the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty and offer contrasting points of view about whether freer trade can … reduce poverty in Latin America. One of the main lessons extracted from the book is that preexisting policies 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 …