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Research Brief
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Social insurance has not succeeded in reducing fiscal deficits and expanding coverage to more beneficiaries in Latin America Social assistance has had a greater impact on poverty and inequality than social insurance In lower-middle-income countries, social assistance programmes have not expanded as...
Research Brief
During the 1990s, inequality in Ecuador increased because of a natural disaster and deep economic and financial crisis, as well as the impact of liberalization of the trade and financial sectors on labour markets Falling income equality in Ecuador during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
– Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
– The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El Salvador
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
– Policy Changes and Lessons
The book aims to document and explain the sizeable decline of income inequality that has taken place in Latin America during the 2000s. It does so through an exploration of inequality changes in six representative countries, and ten policy chapters dealing with macroeconomics, foreign trade...
Blog
– The Role of Conditional Cash Transfer – An Interview with Armando Barrientos
24 January 2014 In this interview Professor Armando Barrientos reviews the recent UNU-WIDER project on inequality in Latin America which looks at the regional trend of decreasing inequality since 2000 and the reasons behind it. The current trend stands out as it goes against the historical high and...
Working Paper
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This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...
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