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 …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because … insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

-cost housing and BOP sector. This study also not discussed how social entrepreneurs play a role in the social business model. There … households at the BOP to earn sustainable income and release their current poverty status. Originality/Value - the research is …