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 …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this … paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic …

Equitable Growth: Lessons from Mexico and Taiwan; Best Practices in Poverty-Reducing and Equity-Enhancing Lending in 2000 … políticas públicas; la educación como herramienta de crecimiento con equidad con ejemplos de casos de México y Taiwán. Asimismo … Río de la Red de desigualdad y pobreza.Abstract: The mission of the Inter-American Development Bank's Poverty and …

, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …

proposes and implements a replicable methodology for a comparative cost analysis of three similar poverty alleviation programs …

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 …

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. …