from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

the 1990s, in particular in the first half of the decade, achieving a remarkable reduction in poverty, which contrasts … with the experience of its neighbors in the Southern Cone. Poverty reduction was mainly due to economic growth, since …

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and … regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …

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 economic scenarios using microeconometric decompositions. Sustainable …

significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by … economies have experienced very heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region have had a … rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … period from 1992 to 2014, using repeated cross-section household data. We first decompose the observed changes in poverty … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …