This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and …

This study addresses inequality of opportunities in access to education for the school-age population and in labor … reveal that inequality of opportunity in access to education exists only for a specific set of circumstances, while in labor … affect inequality of opportunities in access to education and labor income are geographic area, ethnic status and 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. …

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 …

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …

the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since … inequality has remained very high. …