poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on … reduction of old-age poverty. …

discusses the contribution of the labour market and of the social protection system as effective mechanisms to overcome poverty …

America in the last 30 years in which to frame the changes in poverty and inequality in the region. Thus, the main thesis of … the paper argues that, beyond the improvements that indicators of poverty and inequality in the region in recent years …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …