This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality measures in Chile, and their robustness to methodological changes. In particular, we evaluate the impact on the measurement of poverty and inequality of adjustments for...

This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and trace the poverty consequences of various alternative...

This document is the first of a series of reports on the socio-economic situation in Uruguay. It is mainly based on a wide range of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata collected by the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from 1989 to 2003. Data has also been drawn...

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies have experienced very heterogeneous...

La evolución de los indicadores de pobreza para Argentina presentan un pronunciado deterioro en los últimos años, no uniforme en términos regionales. Utilizando datos para el período 1995-2003 la pobreza es descompuesta en sus componentes crónicos y transitorios y se analizar sus...

Bajo la concepción que la pobreza es un fenómeno multidimensional, en el presente trabajo se incorpora la dimensión ex–ante de la misma como la probabilidad de generar ingresos futuros menores a la línea de pobreza, bajo el concepto de vulnerabilidad. Se analiza la evolución de la...