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Poverty Related Links

PovertyNet is a World Bank web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty.

Social Evaluation of the Perception of the Poor in Argentina report

The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments in the areas of poverty reduction and promoting social equity, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their impact on poverty reduction and social equity.

AmericasCanada.org is Canada's leading online source for information about the social, cultural, political and economic issues and events that bind the 34 democratic countries of the western hemisphere.

CROP - the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty - is an international NGO initiated by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The CROP Secretariat is localised at the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway.

Taking proactive action towards the collective construction of a culture based on solidarity to facilitate sustainable human development for people who live in poverty and are socially excluded.

Over one billion people live in poverty today. The scale of poverty around the world is such that one organization alone cannot have an impact. Partners closest to UNDP in addressing poverty eradication in the Latin America-Caribbean region are the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

MOST is a UNESCO programme that promotes international, comparative and policy-relevant research on contemporary social transformations and issues of global importance.

ResilienceNet provides the single, most comprehensive world-wide source of current, reviewed information about human resilience.

ChileSolidario is a System of Social Protection created by the Government of Chile to support and to benefit the 225,000 poorer families from the country. It was inspired by the principle of solidarity and integrity of the effort of all the levels of the State and the Civil Society.

To develop cooperation among Social Investment Funds, institutions and programs of the countries which are members of the Social Network of Latin America and the Caribbean with the purpose of implementing programs and projects that allow the improvement of social actions' efficiency and equity.