The Demography of Poverty in Latin America

The workshop focused on the following subjects:

• Poverty and morbidity / mortality
• Poverty and fertility and reproductive behaviour
• Poverty and family and household structure
• Poverty and children, elders and women
• Poverty and internal migration and residential mobility
• Poverty and problems of urbanization, squatter settlements and inner city slums
• The demography of poverty and social policies in contemporary Latin America