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

Oportunidades, Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program, has proved to be an insufficient tool for poverty … intergenerational transmission of poverty. In this context, what strategy would lead to a more effective poverty reduction without … jeopardizing Mexico's economic development? This study carries out a general-equilibrium assessment in a bottom-up approach in the …

Esta nota presenta un análisis de la trayectoria del Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades en México, con el …

(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …

Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that … and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is …

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 …

Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute … deprivation, and a measure of relative poverty. The first measure is a 14-item Child Deprivation Index that represents a … 'poverty line' - defined as 50 per cent of median disposable household income. …