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 …

Port of Spain on July 13th, 2004. After more than a decade of economic growth and despite encouraging prospects for the …, and pockets of poverty persist. How can the country promote sustainable and equitable development, and thus reduce poverty … growth and to benefit its citizens more equitably, the country must continue to grapple with major issues. This report sheds …

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 …

countries. The persistence of high incidence of poverty and inequality may be largely explained by the poor performance of labor … markets. The motivation of this paper is the idea that poverty reduction is sustainable when labor markets provide expanding … opportunities to the poor. In that sense, the links between economic growth, employment creation and the distribution of labor …

poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …

. 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. …

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