Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These …

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 …,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last … inverted U curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at …