, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …

growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …

, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … – both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy-wide (“macro …” and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways, as well as …

This work assesses the changes in aggregate poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America during the … region for the period from 1970-1995. We find that poverty and inequality have not declined during the 1990s in spite of …. Our results show that even though there are differences in levels across countries, inequality and poverty in most of them …

and 1990s, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean … reductions in education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

This Innocenti Occasional Paper examines the social and economic dynamics of poverty in Latin America from the late … of poverty in the region. He goes on to outline a number of economic and programmatic policy proposals that could help …

Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …