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xv, 199 p. / 27 cm The characteristics and causes of poverty, 1. -- Poverty and icome distribution in the 1990s, 1. -- Demographic and household characteristics of the poor, 3. -- Gender and poverty, 5. -- Employment and sources of income, 7. -- Crime and violence, 9. -- The causes of poverty, 13. -- Low economic growth performance, 13. -- Macroecomic shocks, policy response, and impact on the poor, 14. -- Structural adjustment and the poor, 15. -- Sustaining growth beyond adjustment, 20. -- Labor markets and poverty, 21. -- Human resource development, 27. -- Povertty alleviation efforts and coping mechanisms, 31. -- The formal safety net, 31. -- Social assistance, 35. -- Microenterprise development, 37. -- The informal safety net, 39. -- The role of the family, 39. -- The role of community participation, 40. -- Migration, 44 Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development (CGCED) Poverty Caribbean Area Economic assistance, Domestic Caribbean Area 200 HC 151 P879 1996 060907 20230410103633.0 339