TY - GEN AU - Inter-American Development Bank TI - Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/11/11 DO - 10.18235/0008411 AB - This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It includes a general framework for poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifying a number of areas of emphasis: enhancing opportunities for the poor; assets and markets; contributing to human development; improving the quality of life of the poor; social protection; and good governance and social inclusion. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0008411 ER -