En este artículo se analiza la relación entre el crecimiento económico y la pobreza en el período1991-2006 en Uruguay. La literatura acerca de los efectos del crecimiento sobre el bienestar de lapoblación y específicamente sobre la población en situación de pobreza ha tenido una rápida...

This article analyzes the evolution of the number of children in Uruguayan households during the last decade. With that purpose, differences in the number of children per household and in fertility, by socioeconomic strata, are considered in the period 1996-2006. We then estimate different...

This article analyses the relation between economic growth and poverty in Uruguay, considering the period 1991-2006. The economic literature about poverty and growth has become very profuse during the last years. In this article, we summarize the concepts of pro-poor growth and the methodologies...

In this paper we analyze the allocation of public resources by age group, estimate the net public transfers and study their role in consumption financing, comparing 1994 and 2006 in Uruguay. We use the National Transfers Account system, specially built for measuring economic flows between age...