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and inequality- by applying microeconometric decompositions techniques. In particular, we simulate the equivalized … suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941059
This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies have experienced very heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941085
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429420
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198464
This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies have experienced very heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022012
and inequality- by applying microeconometric decompositions techniques. In particular, we simulate the equivalized … suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022025
This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025342
This paper documents the level and trends of monetary inequality in developing countries based on Povcalnet data up to … the year 2015. On average, during the first half of the current decade, inequality declined in developing economies … lower levels of economic inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854012
This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and trace the poverty consequences of various alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941078
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