Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged …, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further …, we employ this methodology to produce consistent and precise estimates of inequality for every county in Chile. We find …

By all accounts, poverty in Chile has declined dramatically over the last 20 years, with the national headcount ratio … declining from nearly 40% in 1987 to below 14% in 2006. Due to data limitations, most research on poverty in Chile has focused …

As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …

Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE …), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

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 … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … general agreement with respect to their levels and evolution over time, with respect to Chile and also to the city of Santiago …. Additionally, in the case of Chile there are no reliable data to consider its evolution over time. Nevertheless, the general …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …