This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural …

; increase infrastructure investment to create a “seamless Asia”; enhance productivity in the services sector; establish a region …

is an urgent need for this type of endeavor: whether the goal is to reduce poverty or to protect the environment, we need … and systematic planning, migration may fail to reduce poverty, and could even aggravate it. The rapid economic growth in …

The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income … poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care …, infant mortality, and asset holdings. In order to examine the dynamics of poverty, information from 1,212 households in 32 …

Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the …