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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico

Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...

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Naturaleza y selectividad de la política social

Sojo, Ana - In: Revista CEPAL (1990), pp. 183-199

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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica

Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150

El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...

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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social

Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44

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Distribucion del ingreso, pobreza y gasto social en America Latina

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 7-14

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Hacia nuevas políticas sociales en América Latina : crecimiento, clases medias y derechos sociales

Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2005) 87, pp. 45-60

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The Italian Social Protection System : The Poverty of Welfare

Rostagno, Massimo V. - 1998

under review accrues to families whose own resources fall short of the poverty line. The paper then proposes a new means …

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Short-And Long-Term Poverty and Social Policy in a ""Snakes and Ladders"" Model of Growth

Cuevas, Alfredo - 2001

Throughout the world, the great popularity of programs to protect those who may fall into poverty stands in contrast … with the weakness of policies aimed at helping individuals who are already poor to overcome long-term poverty. In the paper …, an OLG model with persistent poverty and limited social mobility is used to explore some of the reasons for the different …

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Jordan : Restructuring Public Expenditures and Protecting the Poor

Ahmad, Ehtisham - 1991

In Jordan, a system of general food subsidies became untenable in budgetary terms, with a sharp devaluation of the dinar in the late 1980s. A shift from a general subsidy system to limited rations would greatly reduce budgetary costs and minimize adverse effects on the poor. To reduce subsidies,...

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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor

International Monetary Fund - 1990

In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...

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