Although there were external shocks and changes in macroeconomic and income policies, the poverty indexes did not register important variations in Uruguay (1980-1990). But the fluctuations in average income suggest that the levels of absolute poverty could have been affected. Anyway, the...

In Uruguay the tax structure and social spending reduce inequality and poverty for the whole society (Bucheli et al. 2013). In this study we analyze the effect of fiscal policy by race considering whites, afros and indigenous. The main question of our paper is whether the reduction of inequality...

The authors note that poverty assessments are of central importance when forming policies wold-wide. After briefly describing the economy and politics of Uruguay, they look at issues in conceptualizing and measuring privation and report on the development of poverty in Montevideo under two...