Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Neidhöfer, Guido - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 96-116
economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … effect is significant in Argentina and Colombia and nil in Mexico, where there has been no such expansion. We find that a … very significant, but that additional spending on social assistance more than offsets the effect in Brazil. The offsetting …
