The Bank has developed and implemented several initiatives to reduce poverty and to improve rural competitiveness …

information which will assist the planning of poverty alleviation programs in a number of countries in Latin America. The specific … aim of this report is to identify the conditions of poverty experienced by indigenous peoples in Nicaragua, to outline as … far as possible the structural causes of this poverty, and to recommend measures which might be taken to alleviate it. …

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

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty …

This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings … based on national statistics on the importance of agriculture and the growth of Gross Domestic Product, the five territories …

conference "Priorities and Strategies in Rural Poverty Reduction: Experiences from Latin America and East Asia". …

reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate …