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Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349208922
Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fort-de-France (Martinique)
ISBN : 031204495X
Author : Marianne Fay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821360698
About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes and policies to tackle poverty. This publication argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are, to a large extent, site specific. It therefore focuses on strategies to assist the urban poor in making the most of the opportunities offered by cities, such as larger labour markets and better services, while helping them cope with the negative aspects, such as higher housing costs, pollution, risk of crime and less social capital.
Author : Robin Rajack,Shrikant Barhate
Publisher : Santiago, Chile : Naciones Unidas
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribe (Región)
ISBN : 9211214416
This report focuses on urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean countries with an emphasis on current and former British territories. Divided into three chapters, it looks at the different sets of related indicators analyzing available information on habitat conditions. Preliminary profiles of informal settlements are given for Trinidad, Jamaica, and Guyana. It includes an analysis of land markets, their structure, evolution, and tendencies, and their impact on land access by poor families and on spatial exclusion. It evaluates different types of upgrading and land regularization programs and compares their operation in different countries and develops guidelines to improve regularization policies in the Caribbean region.
Author : Caroline O. N. Moser,Jeremy Holland
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821338706
This report conducts a comprehensive analysis of India's stabilization and reform program over the past five years, describing a successful transition from central planning to a more open and deregulated economy. In addition to the progress the country has made, the report cites challenges to future growth and points to areas of priority action, such as improving urban services and investing in human capital. The report addresses specific topics, including (i) fiscal consolidation and debt dynamics; (ii) public expenditure and tax reforms; (iii) money and bond markets; (iv) contractual savings institutions; (v) agricultural trade liberalization and rural development; (vi) investing in private infrastructure; and (vii) the external environment and India's export competitiveness.
Author : Judy L. Baker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821339702
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 366.Despite impressive success in improving living conditions in many Caribbean countries, poverty still persists throughout the region. This study seeks to improve our understanding of poverty in the Caribbean and the current efforts to address it. It analyzes the causes and characteristics of poverty in 15 Caribbean countries and reviews the experiences with the poverty and alleviation efforts that countries have pursued. Prepared for the 1996 meeting of the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development, this report provides recommendations on how macroeconomic and social policies can be further oriented to reduce poverty and promote human resource development.
Author : Caroline Moser,Jeremy Holland
Publisher : World Bank Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1280017902
Author : Robert L. Ayres
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821341634
Crime and violence have emerged in recent years as major obstacles to development objectives in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The paper explicates an agenda for future work that may assist LAC countries by discussing 'policy domains' where action is required. Such domains include reducing urban poverty, targeting efforts on 'at-risk' groups, building or rebuilding social capital, strengthening municipal capacity for combating crime and violence, and reforming the criminal justice system.
Author : Robert B. Potter,Dennis Conway
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0870499637
This collection of essays represents the first in-depth, scholarly treatment of housing policies and conditions throughout the Caribbean. The contributors consider both the performance of the state and the autonomous activities of the poor, making this volume an invaluable contribution to future planning and debate.The essays, each dealing with a specific island or group of islands, collectively address four main themes: the history of housing provision since colonization, current housing conditions, state policies toward housing provision, and the changing relationships between governments, international funding agencies, the private housing sector, and the peoples' responses. These investigations not only highlight the often alarming problems that Caribbean nations face in providing adequate housing for the poor but also implicate governments in past and present failures and poor performances. However, the essays are also filled with useful insights about the ways in which progressive housing policies can be formulated and implemented. For example, the volume suggests that the Caribbean's rich heritage of folk and vernacular architectural styles should be taken into serious account in future planning efforts.In a concluding synthesis chapter, the volume editors argue that a more progressive future is attainable if all parties exhibit the political will that the poor have already demonstrated.
Author : Renos Vakis,Jamele Rigolini,Leonardo Lucchetti
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464806612
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region ́s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean takes a closer look at the region’s entrenched poor, who and where they are, and how existing policies need to change in order to effectively assist them. The book shows significant variations of rates of chronic poverty both across and within countries. Within a single country, some regions show incidence rates up to eight times higher than the lowest. Despite the higher rates of chronic poverty in rural areas, chronic poverty is as much an urban as a rural issue. In fact, considering absolute numbers, urban areas in many countries, including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, have more chronic poor than rural areas. Undoubtedly the region has come a long way during the decade in terms of poverty reduction, guided by a mix of sustained growth and increased levels in amounts and quality of public spending and programs targeted directly or indirectly to the chronic poor. While improving endowments and the context where the chronic poor live is a necessary condition going forward, the decade’s experience suggests that it may not be enough to reach the chronic poor. The book posits that refinements to the existing policy toolkit †“ as opposed to more programs †“ may come a long way in helping the remaining poor. These refinements include intensifying efforts to improve coordination between different social and economic programs, which can boost the income generation process and deal with the intergenerational transmission of chronic poverty by investing in early childhood development. Equally important though, there is an urgent need to adapt programs to directly address the psychological toll of chronic poverty on people’s mindset and aspirations, which currently undermines the effectiveness of the existing policy efforts.
Author : Norman Girvan
Publisher : Canoe Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9768125365
Author : Quentin Wodon,Robert L. Ayres
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821347543
Although the progress toward poverty reduction remains sluggish, other dimensions of social welfare in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region show signs of improvement. Adult literacy and school enrollment rates, life expectancy at birth, and the amount of access to safe water are increasing. Nutrition indicators are also improving. However, other factors demonstrate that many problems persist, especially the inequality between rich and poor. This report analyzes the evolution of poverty and inequality in the LAC region from 1986 to 1996 with projections to 1998. It reviews the policies which have been advocated or implemented to reduce poverty. The report combines the results of new empirical work using household surveys from 12 countries, short theoretical developments, and a review of the literature on issues related to poverty, inequality, and social policy in LAC. Some of the theoretical developments introduce new research techniques. Chapters three to six follow the framework proposed in the forthcoming 'World Development Report 2000-2001'. The framework identifies three essential elements for poverty reduction. Those elements include opportunities for the poor and investments in the human capital of the poor, security through social safety nets, and empowerment.
Author : Max Timmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UIUC:30112006731522
Author : Kempe R Hope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000009781
Focusing on Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Guyana, Professor Hope examines the determinants and socioeconomic consequences associated with urban population growth. He documents demographic trends in the region, examines government policies that inadvertently encourage urbanization, and discusses the effects of too-rapid growth on urban
Author : Inge Jensen
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Human settlements
ISBN : 9211313007
