Research Projects:

Financial Sector Activities and Instruments and Poverty Reduction.

Microeconomics of Income Distribution in East Asia and Latin America.

Social Protection for Equity and Growth.

Macroeconomics Crises and Poverty Reduction.

Ethnicity, Poverty and Inequality.

The Effect of Privatization and Deregulation on Income Distribution and Poverty in Latin America.

Micro data inventory about households and the financial sector .

Technical Papers:

Education, Family Background and Racial Inequality in Earnings in Brazil, by Omar Arias, Gustavo Yamada and Luis Tejerina

Climbing a Moving Mountain: Explaining the Decline in Income Inequality in Brazil from 1976 to 1996, by Francisco H.G. Ferreira , Ricardo Paes de Barros (Working Paper,10/98,E).

Can Education Explain Income Inequality Changes in Mexico, by Arianna Legovini, Cesar Bouillon and Nora Lustig.

Social Policy and Social Safety Nets in Argentina: Some Ideas for its Reformulation, by Sebastián Galiani (available only in Spanish).

Social Protection Guidelines: The Peruvian Case, by César Patricio Bouillon y Gustavo Yamada (available only in Spanish).

An Assessment of Poverty and Safety Nets in Nicaragua, by Ferdinando Regalia.

Efectos de los cambios macroeconómicos y de las reformas sobre la pobreza urbana en Argentina, by Oscar Altimir and Luis Beccaria.

Políticas macroeconómicas, pobreza y equidad en Bolivia, by Rodney Pereira and Wilson Jiménez         

Políticas macroeconómica y pobreza en Brasil, by Edward Amadeo and Marcelo Neri

Políticas macroeconómicas, pobreza y equidad en América Latina y El Caribe, by Enrique Ganuza, Lance Taylor and Samuel Morley 

La pobreza en tiempos de recuperación económica y reforma en América Latina: 1985-1995, by Samuel A. Morley

La dimensión de género en la pobreza, la desigualdad y la reforma macroeconómica en América Latina, by Sarah Gammage

Macroeconomía, ajuste estructural y equidad en Colombia, 1978-1996, by José Antonio Ocampo, María José Pérez, Camilo Tovar and Francisco Javier Lasso

Efecto de las políticas macroeconómicas y sociales sobre la pobreza en Costa Rica, by Pablo Sauma and Leonardo Garnier

Efectos de políticas macroeconómicas y sociales sobre los niveles de pobreza: El caso de Cuba en los años noventa, by Ángela Ferriol Muruaga, George Carriazo Moreno, Óscar U-Echavarría and Didio Quintana Mendoza

Políticas macroeconómicas, distribución y pobreza en el Ecuador, by Luis Jácome, Carlos Larrea and Rob Vos

Efecto de las políticas macroeconómicas y sociales sobre la pobreza en el caso de Nicaragua, by Mario J. Arana and Juan F. Rocha

Pobreza y crecimiento dual en Paraguay, by Samuel Morley and Rob Vos

Cambio estructural, políticas macroeconómicas y pobreza en El Salvador, by Alexander Segovia

Enfrentando los Desastres Naturales: El Huracán Mitch en Centroamérica, by Juan Carlos Barahona, Eduardo Doryan, Felipe Larrain and Jeffrey Sachs (In Spanish only.)

Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970-94, by Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet

Preventing Crisis and Contagion. The Domestic Policy Agenda, by Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann

The Shift from Development to Emergency Assistance and its Impact on Poverty and Nutrition: A Conceptual Framework, by John Hoddinott

Old Age Protection for the Uninsured: What are the Issues?, by Estelle James

Crises and the Poor: A Template for Action, by Nora Lustig, Michael Walton

Unemployment Insurance and Emergency Employment Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: an Overview, by Gustavo Márquez

Old-Age Security and Health Care for the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Coping with Catastrophic Health Shocks, by Nicholas Prescott

Social Protection for the Poor in the Developed World: The Evidence from LIS, by Timothy Smeeding, Katherin Ross

Trends in Social Security Reform and the Uninsured, by Andras Uthoff

The Role of Micro-Finance for Income and Consumption Smoothing, by Manfred Zeller

Helping the Poor Manage Risk Better: The Role of Social Funds, by Steen Lau Jørgensen, Julie Van Domelen

Insuring the Economic Costs of Illness, by Paul Gertler

Understanding and Coping with Natural Disasters: El Niño in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Steven A. Vosti

Heterogeneity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance, by Hugo A. Hopenhayn, Juan Pablo Nicolini

Reducción de la pobreza y fortalecimiento del capital social y la participación: La acción reciente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, by Gustavo Yamada