Escaping the Poverty Trap: Investing in Children in Latin America

Enrique Aldaz-Carroll, Nancy Birdsall, Tarsicio Castañeda, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Amartya Sen, Miguel Urrutia, Robert G. Myers and Ricardo Morán

No 338 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director-general of the World Health Organization. In examining the effects of family background on ITP in 16 Latin American countries, the study emphasizes that conception through preschool is when vulnerability to lifetime damage is greatest, but also when there is the most potential for cost-effective interventions to break out of that destructive cycle. Insufficient education is cited as the principal vector of poverty throughout the life cycle and across generations.

Keywords: Poverty; intergenerational transmission of poverty; income inequality; early childhood; underclass; intervention; education; public policy; anti-poverty programs; incentives; subsidies; indigenous peoples; family-focused programs; community development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
ISBN: 9781931003568
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