dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-16T21:30:31Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-16T21:30:31Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	In 2013 the World Bank set itself two ambitious goals: to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost the prosperity of the bottom 40 percent of the population worldwide. In Latin America, the significance of both goals cannot be overstated. Indigenous people account for about 8 percent of the population, but represent 14 percent of the poor and over 17 percent of all Latin Americans living on less than United States (U.S.) $2.50 a day. Though the World Bank has chosen two general indicators for measuring progress toward its twin goals - the proportion of people living on less than U.S. $1.25 a day (purchasing power parity, 2005) and the growth of real capital income among the bottom 40 percent of the population - this report acknowledges that these indicators offer only a partial view of the obstacles preventing many indigenous peoples from achieving their chosen paths of development. The report notes that in Bolivia, Quechua women are 28 percent less likely to complete secondary school than a nonindigenous Bolivian woman, while Quechua men are 14 percent less likely to complete secondary school than non-indigenous men. This report seeks to contribute to these discussions by offering a brief, preliminary glance at the state of indigenous peoples in Latin America at the end of the first decade of the millennium. The authors believe that this is the first, necessary step to start working on a concerted and evidence-based agenda for subsequent work in critical areas of development such as education, health, and land rights. The report makes a critical analysis of the many inconsistencies present in much of the data, which in many cases are intrinsic to the difficulties of approaching indigenous issues with tools and data sets not originally intended to account for or include indigenous peoples’ voices and special needs. The report is divided into six sections. The first part, how many and where they are provides a demographic overview of indigenous people in the region, including population, geographic distribution, number of ethnic groups, and indigenous languages. The second section, mobility, migration, and urbanization describes a growing tendency among indigenous people to migrate to Latin American cities, which are becoming critical, though largely ignored, areas for political participation, and market articulation. The third section, development with identity briefly discusses the concept of poverty and reflects on how the use of predominantly Western indicators of well-being might condition the understanding of indigenous peoples’ situations and needs. The fourth and fifth sections broaden this argument by focusing on two particular instances of exclusion - the market and education.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/24863854/indigenous-latin-america-twenty-first-century-first-decade
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/23751
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23751
dc.language	English
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	GENDER
dc.subject	HEALTHCARE
dc.subject	INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subject	POLITICAL RIGHTS
dc.subject	SOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subject	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.title	Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century	en
dc.title.alternative	América Latina indígena no século XXI : a primeira década Latinoamérica indígena en el siglo XXI : primera década	en
dc.title.subtitle	The First Decade	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: The First Decade
okr.date.disclosure	2016-02-03
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T12:30:46.272414Z
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-07T03:11:23.858576Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/24863854/indigenous-latin-america-twenty-first-century-first-decade
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b08413d2d2_3_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	24863854
okr.identifier.report	98544
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okr.language.supported	en
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okr.region.administrative	Latin America and Caribbean
okr.sector	Education
okr.sector	Health and other social services
okr.theme	Social dev/gender/inclusion :: Gender
okr.topic	Anthropology
okr.topic	Cultural Heritage and Preservation
okr.topic	Cultural Policy
okr.topic	Race in Society
okr.topic	Population Policies
okr.topic	Social Development
okr.topic	Culture and Development
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.unit	Social Dev LAC (GSU04)

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