This paper examines the effects of public provision of private goods (i.e., non-social government subsidies) to the detriment of government provision of public goods and social subsidies on two key measures of the quality of economic growth: poverty rates and income inequality. We use a new data...

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments,...