Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …

Over the last thirty years, economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction rates in Latin America and the … policies and renewed economic growth since 2002, LAC has succeeded in reducing poverty and inequality, one of the region … development. Social protection measures have included innovative poverty reduction programmes, such as conditional cash transfers …