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 … rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth …In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. … distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … and inequality- by applying microeconometric decompositions techniques. In particular, we simulate the equivalized …

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

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and … regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …

significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …

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 …