incidence of destitution among poor older people by 95 per cent. In Chile TFPs considerably improved their poverty reduction …, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the …

Using standard fiscal incidence analysis, this paper estimates the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in … thirteen countries in Latin America around 2010. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay are the countries which … equalizing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and also in Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador but, in the latter, their effect is small …

During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate …, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …