News Bulletins
Equidad is the Poverty and Inequality Unit's newsletter. It is published biannually, and features brief articles about poverty and inequality in the region. Moreover, the newsletter highlights Unit research activities, events and publications.
New Issue.
The tenth edition of "Equidad" includes a variety of articles, news and publications of the Unit, such as:
- What Next for Social Policy: Building on the Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers Programs
- The Bank and Partners to Address Development Challenges in Rural Peru
- Attaining New Effective Social Policy: From Diagnosis to Design
- New Markets and Governance Poverty Reduction Trust Fund
- Measuring Equity in the Millennium Development Goals
- Poverty and Social Protection Network: Forum for Regional Knowledge Exchange
Past Issues.
- Eight edition
- Seventh issue
- Sixth issue
- Fifth issue
- Fourth issue
- Third issue
- Second issue
- First issue
The eighth edition of "Equidad" includes a variety of articles, news and publications of the Unit, such as:
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Board of Directors endorses the new set of sector strategies of the Bank
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Gender, advances in education and violence: effects on poverty
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Impact evaluation projects for the reduction of poverty
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Innovations in risk management for the poor
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HRD/LRN, RE2 and SDS/POV establish working partnership for cross-sector poverty reduction
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Pro-poor growth in LAC countries
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MECOVI, MDG and other Poverty and Inequality Unit related news
The seventh issue of Equidad The seventh issue of Equidad displays: "Cardoso highlights the advances in the region's long term social development. V Social Equity Forum meeting"; "Recession and poverty: the increasing importance of social protection in Latin America"; "Programs with conditioned transfers: the design and impact on household welfare"; "Remittances: Who gets them?"; "Integrating gender analysis in the poverty reduction strategies"; "Alvorada/Brasil: an integral policy to reduce the inequity"; "Best Practices for reducing poverty and inequity: lending in 2002"; "MDGs. Millennium Development Goals.Working Progress"; "MECOVI News" and "Upcoming Events"
The sixth issue of Equidad includes the following articles: "Education and Poverty: Challenges and Reasons for Optimism"; "Microfinance and the Poor: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean"; "Challenges to Implement the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean"; "At the end of the Nineties: Who is more Vulnerable?"
The fifth issue of Equidad includes the following articles: Social safety Nets in the Andean Countries; "Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth: What Do We Know?"; "Millennium Development Goals and the Latin America and the Caribbean Reality"; "Good Practices in Poverty Reduction and Equity Enhancing Loans in 2001"; "Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil"; "MECOVI News and Upcoming Events".
The fourth issue of Equidad includes the following articles: "The IDB and the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality"; "The Importance of Protecting the Poor from the Economic Cost of Illness"; "Poverty Reduction Strategies in Central America and the Banks Role"; "The Participation of the IDB in the Bolivian Poverty-Reduction Strategy"; "Returning to Mexico, Many Faces of Poverty"; "First IDB Knowledge Exchange Fair" and "Upcoming Events".
The third issue of Equidad includes the following articles: "The Forgotten Relationship between Ethics and Development"; "The New Economy's Impact on Equity in Labor Markets-and the Implications for Public Policy"; "Education-a Tool for Equitable Growth: Lessons from Mexico and Taiwan"; "Best Practices in Povery-Reducing and Equity Enhancing Lending in 2000, Learning by Sharing": "The Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of Policymakers; MECOVI NEWS: the activities of the Program for the Improvement of Surveys and Living Conditions Measurement, The Rio Meetings of the Network on Inequality and Poverty.
The second issue of Equidad includes the following articles: "National Poverty Reduction Strategies"; "Socially Responsive Macroeconomics"; The fight against poverty and inequality: The IDB's Actions"; "Social Protection Guidelines: The Peruvian Case ; "Guidelines for Social Protection in Nicaragua"; "Impact Evaluation: Why, When and How?"; Finally, it depicts the activities of the Program for the Improvement of Surveys and Living Conditions Measurement(MECOVI).
This first issue of Equidad addresses recent poverty trends in the region, the impact of macroeconomic crises on the poor, the design of targeted human development programs, impact evaluation, Perus new fiscal transparency law, and other topics of interest.
Last updated: 01/16/07
