substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … 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 …

A common criticism of antipoverty programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially … 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. …

More than a third of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean currently live in poverty. Will the region be … able to simultaneously increase economic growth and reduce poverty given its scarce fiscal resources? The message of this … other. This report shows the importance of economic growth to achieve poverty reduction. It also shows that in countries …