, 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 …

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 …

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