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 …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

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 …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …

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 … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …