This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

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 …

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not … only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of … a poverty reduction strategy. As a result, the paper analyses the role of exchange rate policy, capital controls and …

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …While decreasing inequality is generally considered desirable, and there is a growing understanding of which policies …-economic groups arises on how government should address inequality rather than whether it should do so. While poorer respondents …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors …

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty … communities and small producers thus supporting efforts to reduce inequality and by actions for conservation and protection of the …

criteria, use of poverty maps, application of qualitative methodologies, and more rigorous analysis of survey data to determine …

This discussusion paper deciphers how poverty and income distribution were affected by economic shocks in the Latin … American region. Empirical evidence suggests that macroeconomic shocks can result in substantial increases in inequality and … poverty. Latin America has experienced two major crises in the last 15 years. In the 1980s, Mexico's debt crisis spread …