substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes …

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 …

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

The paper analyses inequality in housing conditions for India for two time period 2008-09 and 2012. Housing conditions … are important determinants of health status. Access to descent housing and basic amenities is essential to improve health … status of people. Given this backdrop, we examine the distribution of housing and basic amenities, namely, drinking water …