Urban Poverty Alleviation in Latin America
Author | : Max Timmerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Max Timmerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marianne Fay |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821360699 |
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 | : Brodwyn Fischer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822377497 |
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew G.. Frank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1966 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter L. Maffenini |
Publisher | : FrancoAngeli |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9788846446473 |
Author | : Brodwyn Fischer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822355182 |
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
Author | : Renos Vakis |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464806616 |
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.