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Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 13:26:35 EST
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:46:24 -0500 From: GDAEannounce@tufts.edu Subject: New paper on poverty in Latin America GDAE announces the publication of a new working paper by GDAE Research Fellow Ann Helwege and Melissa Birch: “Declining Poverty in Latin America? A Critical Analysis of New Estimates by International Institutions” Indicators of progress in overcoming poverty in Latin America have been heralded recently by international institutions. Yet a closer look at data from the World Bank and the United Nations reveals contradictions that are not easily resolved by reference to the underlying methodologies. This paper provides an introduction to how poverty is measured, what the data indicate about trends in poverty, and reasons to tread cautiously in interpreting it as evidence of progress or stagnation. While significant progress has been achieved in a few large countries, the poorest countries are still very poor, and some countries have even seen increases in their poverty rates despite economic growth. The paper was presented at the Sept. 2007 Latin American Studies Association congress. It is available at:http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/07-02LatinAmPoverty.pdf For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program:http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
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