The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still … recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America's reduction in poverty and inequality for the previous decade …, Brazil's 2014-2016 crisis and recovery are a stark departure from the previous decade as Brazil's inclusive growth turned …

In the last decades, Brazil experienced a historical decline in its wage inequality level, particularly in the first … exact role of technological changes. The paper concludes by discussing future trends in wage inequality in Brazil …

Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most … unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and Panama. Fiscal policy is one of the instruments that allow governments to …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …