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Recent Trends in Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2013
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
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Tracing out the Effects of Demographic Changes on the Income Distribution. The Case of Greater Buenos Aires 1980-2000
Marchionni, Mariana; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
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
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Growth and Income Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Tornarolli, … - 2005
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
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Growth and Income Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Tornarolli, … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005
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
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Tracing out the Effects of Demographic Changes on the Income Distribution. The Case of Greater Buenos Aires 1980-2000
Marchionni, Mariana; Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003
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
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Chapter 9. Recent Trends in Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 697-805). 2015
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
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries
Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2013
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
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Meeting the Poverty-Reduction MDG in the Southern Cone
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cicowiez, Martín - 2005
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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Areas Rurales y Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio en America Latina y el Caribe
Cicowiez, Martín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutierrez, Federico - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941098
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Alejo, Javier; Haimovich, Francisco; … - 2007
This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education, health and access to services vis-à-vis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941110