, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …

growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …

from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …

This Innocenti Occasional Paper examines the social and economic dynamics of poverty in Latin America from the late … of poverty in the region. He goes on to outline a number of economic and programmatic policy proposals that could help …

Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …

social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … – both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy-wide (“macro …” and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways, as well as …

poverty in five Latin American countries. The results suggest that economic downturns have a negative impact on child … mortality, child health, and both overall and child poverty. Child poverty increases at higher rates than overall poverty …

(transmission mechanisms) through which the process of globalization affects poverty directly and indirectly. Section 3 reviews the … the effects of different manifestations of globalization on poverty tend to be context-specific. In general, the main … globalization channels appeared not to have been able to reduce overall poverty in the region. Between 1981 and 2004 growth was …