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Growth And Income Poverty In Latin America And The Caribbean: Evidence From Household Surveys

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Leonardo Gasparini
Federico Gutiérrez
Leopoldo Tornarolli

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This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies experienced heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region had a rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income growth have been rare in Latin America. Copyright 2007 The Authors; Journal compilation International Association for Research in Income and Wealth 2007.

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Volume (Year): 53 (2007)
Issue (Month): 2 (06)
Pages: 209-245
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