Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated with targeting fewer poor people and better, more...

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated with targeting fewer poor people and better, more...

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper, we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied...

Despite two decades of rapid growth, indigenous Chileans are disproportionately poor. However, income data obtained from household surveys that are not representative by ethnicity yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality for these groups. This paper therefore estimates poverty and...

As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local governments are responsible for both identifying the poor and allocating transfers. Until recently, however, evaluating the effectiveness of local governments in enacting these...

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. However, there is no such agreement with respect to...