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

poverty, linking income transfers with simultaneous interventions in health, education and nutrition. Second, the programme …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

discusses the contribution of the labour market and of the social protection system as effective mechanisms to overcome poverty …

America in the last 30 years in which to frame the changes in poverty and inequality in the region. Thus, the main thesis of … the paper argues that, beyond the improvements that indicators of poverty and inequality in the region in recent years …

This paper discusses the Conditional Cash transfer Program, the main public policy against poverty in Latin America … today. The poverty level, and both the institutional characteristics and the results achieve by the programs are highlighted …. The paper conclude that CCT are helping to reduce the poverty level, but at the same time the results are not the same in …

and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …

poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al …