information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis. Updating the PMT data does not improve social welfare relative to … increases social welfare. A dynamic method that uses data on shocks to estimate a variable component of income reduces exclusion … errors and limits the expansion in coverage, increasing social welfare during the economic crisis. We consider these …

This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …

analysis of changes in welfare indicators, hides the role that schooling and its returns may have on the understanding of these … finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role … constraining the period's remarkable progress in poverty reduction and expansion of the middle class. …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …