fulfill its broad promise to make poor people better off, eventually. While a number of poverty-reducing strategies and …. Poverty is seen not as a problem that confronts the ‘poor' but as something which is detrimental for the success of democracy … or that which could cause social instability and undermine the benefits of economic reform. The ‘new politics of poverty …

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This … statistical analysis of indigenous populations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, examining their poverty rates … improvements have been achieved in some social indicators, little progress has been made with respect to poverty. …