-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

transfers (CTs). On the basis of household survey data, we analyse their coverage, importance in household income, and effects … on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts … variation of these interventions in terms of their design, coverage, and importance in household income. CTs account for a …