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

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El S

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

Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Exp

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from severe and widespread poverty. They are more likely than any other gr