substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes …

criteria, use of poverty maps, application of qualitative methodologies, and more rigorous analysis of survey data to determine …

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on … recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities … carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and …

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not … only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of … a poverty reduction strategy. As a result, the paper analyses the role of exchange rate policy, capital controls and …

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty …

This discussusion paper deciphers how poverty and income distribution were affected by economic shocks in the Latin … poverty. Latin America has experienced two major crises in the last 15 years. In the 1980s, Mexico's debt crisis spread …