The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …

income to self-employed workers also generate a favorable benefit-cost ratio, with differences among countries. …

increases in income inequality that we project will gradually diminish with the recovery. However, the lost schooling and losses …This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and …

This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness - inequality relationship in Latin America …. We present three contributions. The first is that we assemble a database on income distribution indicators systematically … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and …