Understanding the poverty impact of the global financial crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean

Crisis and poverty have long been linked in Latin America and indeed around the world. Countries that are prone to macroeconomic and financial crises tend to be poorer, and crisis episodes produce significant spikes in poverty rates. This study adds to a venerable and rather gloomy tradition of work trying to parse the impacts and pathways that run from financial collapse in banking centers to poverty in the villages of Latin America.
[Washington, DC: 2014]

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