traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

Poverty reduction remains one of the main challenges for Latin America at the end of the 20th century. Most of the … countries in the region are classified as middle income by international standards, and yet they register poverty rates well … above what would be expected given their GDP per capita. The reason for this "excess poverty" lies in the high inequality in …

Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that …

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the … handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity analysis to the use of different poverty lines and poverty indexes … of the total population. Additionally, the ranking of countries with respect to poverty is also highly sensitive. This …

This paper processes 76 household surveys from 17 Latin American countries to document changes in poverty and …. Poverty declined in 10 or 11 of the 17 countries for which household surveys are available to us, depending on the poverty … measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction …

The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …