Renos Vakis: 3 books
by Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
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...
by Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Tras décadas de estancamiento, la población de clase media en América Latina y el Caribe ha aumentado en un 50%-de aproximadamente 100 millones de personas en 2003 a 150 millones (o un 30% de la población del continente) en 2009. Durante este periodo, el porcentaje de la población pobre disminuyó...