Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jillie Chang, David Evans and Carolina Herrera
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Jillie Chang: Inter-American Development Bank
Carolina Herrera: New York University

No 734, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Approximately one in three people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides an overview of who the poor are and how they live, using 18 recent household surveys from the region. It examines (1) how many people are poor, (2) how the poor are distributed geographically, (3) how poverty affects specific groups, (4) how much of the poverty in the region is chronic versus transitory, and (5) how poverty numbers have changed over time. Second, it identifies how the poor live. Specifically, it discusses (6) the living arrangements of the poor, (7) their assets, (8) how they earn their incomes, (9) how they access human capital services, and (10) their access to social safety nets. This descriptive analysis may be useful for targeting efforts and for generating hypotheses for poverty reduction that can be tested causally.

Keywords: poverty; development; Latin America and the Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 J20 O10 O12 O15 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2025-10-28
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