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 … growth have been rare in Latin America in the last 15 years. …

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 … growth have been rare in Latin America in the last 15 years. …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …, especially among women, which contributed to the reduction of poverty and inequality in most countries, although the size of this …