Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from widespread poverty. This book provides the first rigorous assessment

Indigenous people constitute a large portion of Latin America's population and suffer from severe and widespread poverty. They are more likely than any other gr

This is the first book that documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The vo

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

During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that t