Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its … very small: about 0.5 per cent in Mexico and Brazil and a very small 0.01 per cent in Chile. But since their targeting has … Mexican Gini index, each of which fell by approximately 2.7 points during the period that this paper reviewed. In Chile the …

early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively stable countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Using econometric techniques … and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the … address the link between labour markets and the dynamics of inequality and poverty by comparing the average performance of the …

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION: INITIAL CONDITIONS MATTER …The focus of this paper is on analytical examination of how the relation between growth and poverty can change with the … initial levels of economic development and inequality. Using the idea of poverty elasticity, measuring the extent to which …

This Country Study provides an outline of a Strategy for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Uzbekistan. It … productive employment. The study favours supplementing such measures, which promote growth and employment, with more poverty …

performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …

Mexico's well-known Oportunidades Programme sought to modify certain survival strategies of poor people that … development practitioners associate with the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The tendency of young people from …