Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment of changes in socio-economic conditions among the region's indigenous people, tracking progress in these indicators during the first...

It is often stated that 'development' itself has failed to provide answers to human suffering and disadvantage or to fulfill its broad promise to make poor people better off, eventually. While a number of poverty-reducing strategies and legislations are being formulated and implemented the world...