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Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

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The Impact of Income Adjustments in the Casen Survey on The Measurement of Inequality in Chile

Bravo, David - 2020

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Miserly developments

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...

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Does development reduce migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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Ten findings about poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chang, Jillie; Evans, David K.; Rivas Herrera, Carolina - 2024

Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the poor are, where they are located, and how they live in...

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Essays on social protection and redistribution in Latin America

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

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Inequality and crime in Latin America and the Caribbean : new data for an old question

Schargrodsky, Ernesto; Freira, Lucia - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 175-202

The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between inequality and crime, with a focus on the Latin …, inequality is the only variable showing this robust regularity. Education levels, economic activity, income per capita, and … inequality in crime regressions suggests that a causal interpretation of this relationship is plausible. In addition, the …

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Poverty Outreach Findings : Mibanco, Peru

Horn Welch, Karen; Devaney, Patty - 2014

This report presents ACCION's analysis and findings regarding the poverty profiles of microfinance clients at Mibanco, Peru. In this first institutional analysis in ACCION's Poverty Outreach project, the authors analyze client income data to compare borrower poverty levels with urban, national...

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