This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … transfers to poor households, seem to have played an important role in driving these results by bolstering income growth among …

inequality has remained very high. …

inequality has remained very high. …

This study aims to determine patterns of poverty and inequality in small areas and household characteristics related to …

income surveys, while there often are surveys of regions as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys … (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … since 1989, while nationally representative household income surveys only exist since 1997. In this paper, we adjust a …

income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … nationally representative DHS since 1989, while nationally representative household income surveys only exist since 1997. In this …

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and … regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by … rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income …

income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … nationally representative DHS since 1989, while nationally representative household income surveys only exist since 1997. In this …