This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general …

income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to … the same questionnaire in all countries, and then it stands as a complement to national household surveys for …

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …

increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan … the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …

distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … household income distribution that would emerge if individuals in time t took fertility decisions as in time t’. The results …During the last two decades fertility decisions have varied significantly and not uniformly along the income …