This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …

income poverty and inequality in Latin Americaand the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC with other …

This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the … first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static …

This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last …

inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional …

poverty line. Foster and Wolfson have recently developed a methodology without arbitrariness. We apply this tool and a … during the 1994-2004 and 2004-2010 periods. During the first period, characterized by increasing income inequality, the …

The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina …