This report discusses the relevant concepts and documents the facts about mobility in Latin America and Caribbean over the past two decades, both within and between generations. It investigates the rise of the Latin American middle class over the past 10-15 years and explores the size, nature, and composition of this pivotal new social group.
This book provides a careful and through assessment of the knowledge accumulated so far conditional cash transfer programs ; it will inform and orient academic economists and policy makers when they consider starting, scaling-up, and evaluating programs of this nature. Further, the book also raises issues that, in my view, are very relevant and have so far been underemphasized, namely the need …