Ecuador Poverty Assessment Social outcomes and access to basic services in Ecuador have improved slowly but continuously since 1990, while monetary poverty has increased. As a result, and in response to a explicit demand from the Government of Ecuador, the focus of this report is on monetary poverty and its determinants. The report pays special attention to the relationship between poverty and the productive sectors, and provides important insights regarding the relationship between economic growth, productivity and employment generation on the one hand, and poverty reduction on the other. More