significant advances in poverty reduction recorded since the mid-eighties, in the last years Uruguay witnessed a deterioration of …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

This work assesses the changes in aggregate poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America during the … region for the period from 1970-1995. We find that poverty and inequality have not declined during the 1990s in spite of …. Our results show that even though there are differences in levels across countries, inequality and poverty in most of them …

inequality for two important non-income measures of wellbeing, childrenz s stature and adult womenq s educational attainment. Our … purpose is to determine whether the worrying trend of increasing income inequality in Latin America is also found in non …-income dimensions of well-being. We find that it is not. Almost across the board, health inequality, measured by childreni s stature …

growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series …

Accounting for environmental damage is relevant to how one measures the extent and severity of inequality and poverty … inequality and poverty measures for Brazil and Costa Rica. Unlike Khan, I test for different assumptions regarding the ecological … distribution. Provisional results indicate that inequality and poverty are understated, and that, under certain assumptions, both …

from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …