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

Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, on top of promoting economic growth, addresses …

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. …

Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that …

Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …

Targeted Human Development Programs (THDPs) are integrated poverty reduction programs designed to increase the capacity …-school and school-age children. Their main long-term objective is to eradicate the structural causes of poverty by fostering … investment in the next generation's human capital. A secondary objective is to alleviate poverty in the short term, mainly …

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 …

The main goal of this Strategy (GN-1894-7) is to promote faster progress in the reduction of poverty by tackling its … strategy highlights Bank key actions to reduce poverty and promote social equity, including: (i) the promotion of policies and … programs for sustainable economic growth and macroeconomic stability as a necessary prerequisite for reducing poverty and …

-American Development Bank's Poverty and Inequality Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments' work in … the area of poverty reduction, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities … so as to increase their poverty reduction impact. The fourth issue of Equidad contains the following articles: The IDB …

poverty reduction, low gross capital formation is hindering development in the region, and decentralization has increasingly …