having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … states, the issue is even more pressing. High levels of poverty lead to high rates of migration towards the North. Augmented …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

poverty, linking income transfers with simultaneous interventions in health, education and nutrition. Second, the programme …

This paper discusses the Conditional Cash transfer Program, the main public policy against poverty in Latin America … today. The poverty level, and both the institutional characteristics and the results achieve by the programs are highlighted …. The paper conclude that CCT are helping to reduce the poverty level, but at the same time the results are not the same in …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

discusses the contribution of the labour market and of the social protection system as effective mechanisms to overcome poverty …

America in the last 30 years in which to frame the changes in poverty and inequality in the region. Thus, the main thesis of … the paper argues that, beyond the improvements that indicators of poverty and inequality in the region in recent years …

This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 … to labor productivity growth in the period 1990 to 2008. These channels, which have been developed in the theoretical …