issues fromaccess to education and health services, consumption patterns, to the impact on poverty,inequality, and labor …In recent years, reducing poverty has been a core objective of social policy in Latin America. In2008, the incidence of … poverty reached almost a third of the population, of which 13 percent areclassified as extremely poor. Most Latin American …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …

between the magnitude of grievances (formulated here as the extent of inequality) and the likelihood of repression. The main … likelihood of repression might decrease. I investigate the relationship between inequality and the likelihood of repression in … generalized additive model with thin-plate splines (GAM-TPS). This technique allows for flexible relationship between inequality …

it would involve an efficiency loss. The optimal reform of the tax schedule would reduce wealth and income inequality at …