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 …This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are …

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 …

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 …,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last … curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at least …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … income inequality, and poverty across U.S. states. Finally, we exploit both time series and cross sectional variation in the …

The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes …

This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …