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 …

of development in the fight against poverty, inequality and social exclusion.Abstract: La segunda edición del folleto …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple …

This paper was commissioned for the 1st Meeting of the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network held on June 11 … Protection and Poverty Reduction Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared by the Poverty and Inequality Advisory …

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …

Government: PROGRESA, which is a national anti-poverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, a scheme designed …