"The articles included in this book represent some of the tangible outputs of the international conference entitled "In Search of a New Paradigm: Social Capital

The Economic Development Institute (EDI), in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-American Foundation, launched the Pa

Although the progress toward poverty reduction remains sluggish, other dimensions of social welfare in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region show signs

Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse rec

Over the last decade Latin America and the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme poverty