The authors attempt to explore the efforts, since the 1970s, of Brazil and Mexico to reform their models of development. They focus on one aspect of this strategic reform, the promotion of the export of manufactures

This Working Paper decomposes changes in the Gini coefficient in order to investigate whether Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its technique is the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor...