The article attempts an assessment of the long-term evolution of poverty in the four Latin American countries for which there is enough historical data. Argentina, Colombia, Chile,and Mexico represent a variety of the different national situations present in the region. Intertemporal...

The aim of this paper is three fold: a) it presents a formal generalization of Theil’s decomposition method, b) it presents advances in the determination of its properties, and c) it contributes towards the interpretation of interactions among variables.

Este articulo analiza los costos distributivos de la crisis y los ajustes de los anos ochenta, asi como los efectos de la recuperacion y del inicio de sendas de crecimiento sostenido. Para ello se basa en pares comparables de la distribucion del ingreso y en las estimaciones de pobreza de la...