Poverty in Latin America

Latin American Research Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 207-222

  Gindling, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 85045163842     PISSN: 00238791     EISSN: 15424278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lar.2005.0008     Document Type: Review

References (5)

1. I would like to thank Katherine Terrell and Yang Guo for their helpful suggestions and careful reading of an earlier draft of this review essay.
2. Poverty rates for Latin American countries arc reported by ECLAC, Social Panorama of Latin America (Santiago, Chile: United Nations Publications, various years).
3. One influential publication that lnade this pointvas the Inter-American Development Bank's 1998 Report 011 Economic and Social Progress in Latin A111erica, subtitled Facing Up to Inequality ill Latin America: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1998-1999 (Washington, DC: Johns l-Iopkins University Press, for lOB, 1998).
4. The countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, EI Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
5. The Social Panorama of Latin America: 1999-2()()() reports that a minimum of ten years of education is neccssary to pull a person out of povcrty