Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of … migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This … book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty, particularly through economic investments, and offers new perspectives …

rural development (agricultural growth, patterns of growth and rural poverty) for ten Latin American countries over 1985 … reduce rural poverty. …

This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings … reductions in poverty during the last two decades - a transformation that they achieved by taking substantially different paths …

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 report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty …

conference "Priorities and Strategies in Rural Poverty Reduction: Experiences from Latin America and East Asia". …