Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on … local inequality is thus not well understood. Using povertymapping methods to asses this impact, we find heterogeneity in …

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 estimators of inequality for every county in Chile. We find a great deal …

Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on … local inequality is thus not well understood. Using povertymapping methods to asses this impact, we find heterogeneity in …

from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …

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. …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …