2000/01/01 by Ramón López, Cláudia Romano · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Innovation and Socioeconomic Development #Regional Development and Innovation
paper · doi:10.1057/9780333977798_11
openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Poverty in Latin America is much more concentrated in rural areas than in urban centers, and Honduras is no exception in this respect (World Bank, 1995e). According to a recent study, Honduras has one of the worst income distributions in Latin America (Londoño, 1995), and one of the lowest per capita incomes in the continent, estimated at US600. A very high proportion of the farmers in Honduras are below what is considered the extreme poverty line in the region, US180 annual per capita income. The highly biased income distribution, combined with an extremely low per capita income, makes Honduras one of the worst cases in terms of both the incidence and severity of poverty in all of Latin America. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.