Verner, Dorte2012-06-262012-06-262006-12https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9255Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200,000-250,000 indigent families. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); live largely in dispersed areas where basic service provision is often weak and delivery is difficult (in particular school attendance beyond 11 years of age falls off very rapidly compared with grouped rural or urban areas); and be more likely to be small landholders than landless laborers. The structure of poverty in rural Argentina shows that larger households are poorer than smaller households, female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households, young households/household heads are poorer than older households/household heads, the poor tend to work more in the informal sector, and a greater share of those engaged in agriculture are poor. However, poverty is by no means strictly an agricultural problem. Furthermore, the deepest poverty is among the poorly educated and young household heads with children. Without interventions to improve their opportunities and assets, their plight is likely to worsen.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO MARKETSACCESS TO SERVICESAGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIESAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL SECTORAGRICULTURAL WORKERSBABYBASIC FOOD BASKETBASIC NEEDSBIODIVERSITYCALORIC INTAKECASH TRANSFER PROGRAMSCENSUSESCONSUMPTION DATACONSUMPTION POVERTYDEMOGRAPHIC CHANGESDEMOGRAPHIC FACTORSDEMOGRAPHIC TRENDSDEPENDENCY RATIODISEASESECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIESELDERLYELDERLY PEOPLEEMPLOYMENT GENERATIONEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESEXPORT MARKETSEXTREME POVERTYEXTREME POVERTY LINEFAMILY INCOMEFAMILY MEMBERSFAMILY PLANNING SERVICESFARMERSFARMLANDFERTILITY DIFFERENTIALFERTILITY RATEFERTILITY RATESFOOD BASKETFOOD ITEMSFOOD PRICESFOOD SECURITYFRAGILE ECOSYSTEMSGOVERNMENT PROGRAMSGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTGROWTH PATTERNHEADCOUNT POVERTYHEALTH CAREHEALTH CARE SYSTEMHOUSEHOLD HEADSHOUSEHOLD POVERTYHOUSEHOLD SIZEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSINCOMEINCOME DATAINCOME GAPINCOME INEQUALITYINCOME POVERTYINCOME­POVERTYINEQUALITYINFANTINFANT MORTALITYINFANT MORTALITY RATEINFORMED DECISIONSINTENSIVE AGRICULTUREINVESTMENT IN EDUCATIONINVESTMENTS IN EDUCATIONLABOR FORCELABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLACK OF SKILLSLATIN AMERICANLEVEL OF EDUCATIONLEVEL OF POVERTYLIFE PROSPECTSLIVE BIRTHSLIVELIHOOD SECURITYLIVELIHOOD STRATEGIESLIVING CONDITIONSLONG RUNLOSS OF LANDLOWER FERTILITYMALNUTRITIONMIGRATIONMINISTRY OF EDUCATIONMINISTRY OF HEALTHMOTHERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTSNATIONAL POPULATIONNATURAL CAPITALNUMBER OF CHILDRENNUMBER OF PEOPLEOVERPOPULATIONPOLICY RESEARCHPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERPOLITICAL POWERPOLLUTIONPOOR AREAPOOR FAMILIESPOOR HOUSEHOLDPOOR HOUSEHOLDSPOOR LIVINGPOOR PERSONPOOR POPULATIONPOOR PROVINCESPOORER PROVINCESPOORER REGIONSPOPULATION CENSUSPOPULATION CHANGEPOPULATION DENSITYPOPULATION GROWTHPOPULATION GROWTH RATEPOPULATION INCREASEPOPULATION SHAREPOVERTY ANALYSISPOVERTY ASSESSMENTPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY INDICATORSPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MEASUREPOVERTY MEASUREMENTPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY PROFILEPOVERTY RATEPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTSPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGYPOVERTY SITUATIONPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGYPROGRESSPUBLIC INVESTMENTPUBLIC PROGRAMSPUBLIC SECTORPUBLIC SERVICESRELIABLE FAMILY PLANNINGREMITTANCESREMOTE RURAL AREASRURALRURAL AREARURAL AREASRURAL DWELLERSRURAL HOUSEHOLDRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL INCOMERURAL INCOME POVERTYRURAL INHABITANTSRURAL LABORRURAL PEOPLERURAL PHENOMENONRURAL POORRURAL POPULATIONRURAL POPULATION GROWTHRURAL POPULATION GROWTH RATESRURAL POVERTYRURAL POVERTY ALLEVIATIONRURAL POVERTY INCIDENCERURAL POVERTY REDUCTIONRURAL PUBLICRURAL RESIDENTSRURAL SECTORRURAL STRATEGYSAFETY NETSAFETY NETSSAVINGSSCHOOL ATTENDANCESEASONAL EMPLOYMENTSERVICE PROVISIONSIGNIFICANT EFFECTSMALL FARMERSSMALLER HOUSEHOLDSSOCIAL CAPITALSOCIAL CONSEQUENCESSOCIAL IMPACTSSOCIAL PROGRAMSSOCIAL PROTECTIONSOCIAL SERVICESSOCIAL WELFARESOIL EROSIONSOUTH AMERICASQUARED POVERTY GAPTERTIARY EDUCATIONTRANSFER PROGRAMSUNEMPLOYMENTUNMET DEMANDURBAN AREASURBAN POPULATIONURBAN POVERTYURBANIZATIONWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4096