Over the last thirty years, economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction rates in Latin America and the … policies and renewed economic growth since 2002, LAC has succeeded in reducing poverty and inequality, one of the region … development. Social protection measures have included innovative poverty reduction programmes, such as conditional cash transfers …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …

Our study contributes to the discussion on the impact of imputed rent on poverty. In this paper, we address the issue … poverty among retirees, who are considered to be an economically vulnerable group. We employ the Luxembourg Income Study … imputed rental income contributes to poverty reduction. This also entails some policy implications in the long run, especially …