poor households can foster resilience by facilitating savings and income smoothing … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …, asset accumulation, or income smoothing in agriculture and off-farm activities. It combines household survey data collected …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is …

income tax is found to be largely progressive, with the top quintile paying more than four-fifths of this tax. Uruguay …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …