growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two … been accompanied by an increase in urban poverty levels.Abstract: Las áreas centrales de una ciudad contienen una mezcla de ….3 billion people live in urban areas. This significant increase in urban population has resulted from both natural population …

poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …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 …

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 …

This paper examines the efficacy of three conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua … in mitigating the potential negative effects of an income shock caused by falling prices of coffee, an important cash … crop to many CCT participants. A theoretical household model is developed that demonstrates both the positive potential of …

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. …