El documento analiza la posesion y acceso a activos por parte de los pobres en el Peru. Se encuentra que durante los pasados diez anos ha aumentado el nivel promedio y se ha reducido la desigualdad en el acceso a la educacion. La obtenccion de otros servicios publicos tambien aumento, aunque la...

This paper compares objective and subjective definitions of the middle-class using data from the 2007 World Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure. Mismatches between the objective and subjective...

The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World...

The current coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health challenge that has devastating economic impacts for households. Using a sample of 230,540 respondents to online surveys in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, we show that the economic impacts are large and unequal:...