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Income and beyond: multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries
Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2009
This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil … areas of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In all countries, access to proper sanitation and education of the household head are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895801
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Short and long-run distributional impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Neidhöfer, Guido - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 96-116
economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … effect is significant in Argentina and Colombia and nil in Mexico, where there has been no such expansion. We find that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333876
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru : A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora - 2012
) especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101530
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru : A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora - 2015
), especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035901
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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Ortiz-Juarez, … - 2015
studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160335
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Remittances and vulnerability to poverty in rural Mexico
Fuente, Alejandro de la - 2008
International remittances have been portrayed as the human face of globalization given their potential to alleviate poverty by directly increasing household income. Using a panel of rural households in Mexico from October 1998 to November 2000 this study assesses whether this is in fact the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284540
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Growth, inequality and poverty dynamics in Mexico
Iniguez-Montiel, Alberto Javier; Kurosaki, Takashi - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 27 (2018), pp. 1-25
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 reduction into components arising from growth, improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029548
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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in six Latin American countries
Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe … - 2009
This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil … areas of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In all countries, access to proper sanitation and education of the household head are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429303
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How redistributive is fiscal policy in Latin America? : the case of Chile and Mexico
Castelletti, Barbara - 2013
This paper looks at the incidence of fiscal policy on the income distribution for Chile and Mexico. Notably by broadening the income concept to account for in-kind benefits and taxes, this paper provides a full picture of the effect of fiscal policy on reducing income inequality. The contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230705
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Income Risk, Income Mobility and Welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2013
This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare … derive analytical expressions for income mobility and welfare as a function of the various parameters of the underlying … results. Much of measured income mobility is driven by measurement error or transitory income shocks and therefore (almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084765