This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable …

This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 …

1995, and to analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This period analyzed is a convulsed one, one within Venezuela … deterioration of economic management. Growth and inflation were highly volatile, real wages fell in a sustained way, and poverty … analysis on the evolution of poverty. …

Brazil is characterized by large inequalities in income, access to health care, and health status. This paper uses data … from the 1998 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios to analyze the complex relationships among health, income, health …

suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s …This paper discusses poverty and unemployment in Argentina, beginning with the turbulent years since 1980. Argentina … of poverty, employment and social equity? These are the questions the authors address in this paper. The work is divided …

household surveys conducted in seven countries, the presentation focuses on the demands of the Majority in the Caribbean. This …

unmarried elderly females, the increase in social security income explains most of the increase in the probability of living …

evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. The results find that health measures have a strong … poverty rates among the elderly. …