Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor … households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar to those witnessed between 2003 …-2006 despite a 2.8 percent decline in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms, poverty …

. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food …, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs have been established as some of the most efficient poverty …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP …, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Macroeconomic …

exogenous macro shocks have significant impacts on poverty and income inequality more generally? For 15 countries in Latin … America and the Caribbean over the past two decades, the answer is unequivocally "Yes." Specifically, poverty reduction …, 1985-95; and El Salvador, 1980-96. Within this data set, the authors identify 49 episodes. Poverty incidence is estimated …