This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general …

heterogeneity of the effect depending on woman’s education, husband’s employment status, number and age of children, and whether the …

on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a … microsimulations to assess the potential effect of changes in human capital due to the COVID-19 crisis on future income distributions …. The findings show that the pandemic is likely to have significant long-run consequences in terms of incomes and poverty if …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable …