and 1990s, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean … reductions in education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income …

, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …

growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by … economies have experienced very heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region have had a … rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …

from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …

consequences for domestic economies, especially in terms of increasing income inequality and rising poverty. The only major …