This study assesses poverty in the microenterprise sector in Latin America, presenting stylized facts on potential … poverty risk factors at the household and individual levels. The goal of the paper is to describe the main trends in the … region and the scope of the paper is limited to a descriptive analysis of poverty risk factors based on the nature of the …

More than a third of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean currently live in poverty. Will the region be … able to simultaneously increase economic growth and reduce poverty given its scarce fiscal resources? The message of this … other. This report shows the importance of economic growth to achieve poverty reduction. It also shows that in countries …

countries. The persistence of high incidence of poverty and inequality may be largely explained by the poor performance of labor … markets. The motivation of this paper is the idea that poverty reduction is sustainable when labor markets provide expanding …

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

rural development (agricultural growth, patterns of growth and rural poverty) for ten Latin American countries over 1985 … reduce rural poverty. …

factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …

objective of this document is to examine the relationship between economic performance and poverty. In order to do so, it … explores the determinants of changes in poverty during the 90s, and particularly how this relationship holds for those sectors … relevant demographic and socioeconomic factors. The main conclusions of the paper are that given the poverty characteristics …

member governments' work in the area of poverty reduction, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending … and non-lending activities so as to increase their poverty reduction impact. The fifth issue of Equidad contains the … following articles: Social Safety Nets in the Andean Countries; Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth: What Do We Know …

approximately 40 million indigenous people of the hemisphere. In addition to the critical issues of poverty reduction, self … Seminar on Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability, organized on the occasion of the First General …

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