and social pensions — are being implemented in Latin American and Caribbean countries with the aim of ending poverty and … terms of the labour supply, formalization and child labour among the target population. Considering that poverty is a … structural problem of highly unequal societies, the thesis that poverty is due to a lack of effort on the part of the poor is …

. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food …, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs have been established as some of the most efficient poverty …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

through the region's various countries as a tool of choice for poverty-reduction policy. CCTs are currently being implemented … of monetary and nonmonetary resources to families with young children, living in poverty or extreme poverty, on condition …

) strives to reduce poverty and also increase food consumption, school attendance, and use of preventive health care. Since 1997 …