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The invisible poor : a portrait of rural poverty in Argentina
Many of the poorest Argentines are invisible in official statistics. Four million rural residents and another 12 million in small urban areas lie outside the reach of the Permanent Household Survey (EPH), which is the basis for poverty figures and most data on social conditions in the country. According to the best estimate, roughly a third of rural residents, more than a million people, live in poverty. The urban bias common too many countries have been accentuated by the lack of data on the rural poor. With little information on their condition, it is exceedingly difficult for policy makers to design policies and programs to help move people out of poverty. The report is organized as follows: chapter one profiles rural poverty base on the limited existing data, including the first in-depth analysis of rural poverty ever conducted with the 2001 population census. Chapter two presents findings from the new qualitative study of the rural poor conducted in the first half of 2007. Finally, chapter three concludes with a discussion of methodology for rural poverty analysis, focusing on the issues related to expanding the EPH to full national coverage.
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Invisible Poor
The work grows out of discussions with counterparts at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Food (SAGPyA) and INDEC. Recognizing the dearth of information on rural areas, the World Bank team agreed to review knowledge on rural poverty and provide guidance on future data collection efforts. A primary objective of this study is to raise the profile of the rural poor in Argentina. Largely because of data limitations, in particular the EPH's lack of coverage in rural areas, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina. As a result, the rural poor have sometimes been neglected in policy discussions. As a first step in highlighting the situation of the rural poor, this report takes stock of existing research, exploits previously untapped information from the 2001 Population Census, and presents findings from a new qualitative study on the subject. For the future, it is crucial that the EPH be expanded to full national coverage. Roughly 38 percent of the country's population, consisting of four million rural residents and another 12 million who live in smaller urban areas, lie outside the current reach of the survey. An expanded EPH would be valuable both for better evaluating existing programs and for helping the government design new programs and policies. Recognizing the challenges that expansion of the EPH would bring, the final chapter of this report explores the key technical issues involved. As the Government of Argentina moves forward with its consideration of how to best improve data on rural issues and address rural poverty, the World Bank stands ready to assist in supporting the next steps. This report is offered in the hope that will stimulate dialogue and interest in addressing the nation's invisible poor.
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Everyday revolutions
Daring and groundbreaking, Marina Sitrin explores how an economic crisis in Argentina spurred a people's rebellion, leading to new forms of social organization and providing an instructive example for activists the world over.
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The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World
The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments, developed and developing, to impose debilitating austerity measures that are exacerbating the structural weaknesses that caused the crisis in the first place.
This volume offers historical insights into the origins of the contemporary crisis as well as detailed analyses of the financial and trade dimensions, an assessment of the technological and innovation context along with perspectives on the implications for unemployment and gender imbalances.
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The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America
When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far, causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses is an examination of the impacts and responses in the diverse Latin American region through the lens of three countries: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.
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Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?
Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand what happened in these countries and why.
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La sustentabilidad del cambio social. Factores positivos en la consolidación de empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores en Argentina
En la Argentina, las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores refieren a procesos de reconversión de empresas capitalistas en cooperativas de trabajo originados en la acción colectiva de los asalariados en defensa de su fuente laboral. A partir del interés por las transformaciones que estas empresas han podido sostener y consolidar en el tiempo, el presente artículo se propone analizar los factores positivos para su consolidación en tanto empresas cooperativas. La estrategia metodológica se basa en el análisis singular y comparado de empresas recuperadas. Las técnicas utilizadas son la entrevista semi-estructurada a informantes clave de las empresas, la observación no participante y el análisis documental. En nuestra hipótesis, los principales factores que colaboran positivamente en los logros alcanzados son: los recursos que se heredan de la empresa fallida, la hegemonía de un proyecto cooperativo que le otorga relevancia a la gestión económica, la tenencia legal de los medios de producción, la producción de bienes y servicios competitivos mercantilmente en un marco de intercambios económicos plurales, así como la participación en redes político-sociales.
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POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA: A STORY OF TWO DECADES
Latin American countries have succeeded in reducing poverty and income inequality over the last decade thanks in part to both economic growth and deliberate social policy measures. This study provides an overview of the available evidence of the changes in income distribution that have occurred in Latin America over the past two decades and their causes. While some attribute the improvements in distribution to changes in the international economy and the positive trend in the Latin American countries' terms of trade, others highlight the influence of changes in public policy. Both of these two sets of factors may have played an important role and may have interacted with one another in various ways.
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