This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existenc

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis a

About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes

Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-in

One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their li