, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the …

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that … those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that … income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions … to figure out the contributing factors behind that dissimilarity in the behavior of inequality across those two …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …