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 …

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 …

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 …

shocks: employment rates fall and poverty rates rise in the run-up to entry, and many who fell out of employment report being … have been voluntary, earnings remain lower and poverty rates higher for at least two years after entry. Despite the effect …