integration and globalization, the importance of well-functioning financial markets cannot be overemphasized. This paper shows how …

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. …

The fact that most poor people in Latin America live in urban areas had implied that poverty in the region is regarded … as largely an urban phenomenon. However, this document exposes what available data suggest: that rural poverty still is …

the Alkire and Foster (2008) dual cutoff multidimensional poverty methodology is proposed. This extension provides a …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

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

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

reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate …