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Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa: Better policies? Better politics?

Barrientos, Armando; Villa, Juan M. - 2013

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfer programmes in developing countries, one...

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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...

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Poverty dynamics and programme graduation from social protection: A transitional model for Mexico's Oportunidades programme

Villa, Juan M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing … countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer … programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty. This paper contributes to the existing literature on social protection by …

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Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach

Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019

importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …

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Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...

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Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...

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Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolved

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora - 2017

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows...

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Uruguay country study

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Venezuela country study

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015

Venezuela experienced slow economic growth during the 2000s. The economy suffered a recession in the early years of the period and during the international crisis of 2008, but most labour market indicators improved and moved along with the business cycle over the period. The only indicators that...

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