This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by … economies have experienced very heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region have had a … growth have been rare in Latin America in the last 15 years. …

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about … improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …, especially among women, which contributed to the reduction of poverty and inequality in most countries, although the size of this …

In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … sizeable raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …