evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. The results find that health measures have a strong …The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a … developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the labor market. The authors analyze the …

, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural … target group, we find that the mental health of elderly adults in the program is significantly improved, as their score on …

of income, multidimensional non-monetary, and subjective deprivation for all countries in the region based on Gallup data …

Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

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 …

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income … group still faces deficits in crucial dimensions of well-being, such as education, job formality, and health care, which are …

intergenerational transmission of poverty in Latin America, drawing on a review of recent studies and empirical work done for this study …