CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD
inequality only if additional jobs are created. In this regard, an IPEA study (cited in CEPAL 2006) decomposed the fall in inequ ...
Table 3. Changes in political orientation in 18 Latin American countries, 1999 - 2009 Country President Party Assumed office Chi ...
Figure 6. Changes in political orientation in 18 Latin American countries, 1990 - 2009 Source: authors’ compilation on the basis ...
developed left-nationalist platforms, while Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua are characterized by a radical left-populist approa ...
A fiscal policy aiming at balancing the budget in the context of an expansionary expenditure policy Traditionally, Latin America ...
which made them unable to fund pro-poor and pro-growth public goods, merit goods and goods generating large positive externaliti ...
Countries benefiting from large increases in the price of hydrocarbons, metals and agricultural exports recorded important growt ...
the region. Table 5 suggests that while tax reform still has a long way to go, the 2002 -2007 increase in tax/GDP ratio was achi ...
reduced the supply of foreign exchange through interventions in the currency market, particularly during the massive capital inf ...
Figure 7. Trends in the index of the real effective exchange rate (REER), 2002=100 in commodity and non-commodity exporters, 200 ...
seems to have developed rapidly, especially in the field of manufacturing exports. Free trade agreements with industrialized cou ...
and lack of human capital afflicting developing countries. In contrast, the measures introduced in the field of labor market soc ...
with lower dispersion of earnings. The minimum wage coverage was f o u n d t o b e more far reaching than t h e neoclassical the ...
2003-06 increase. Indeed, this rise was greater (by about one percent of GDP) in the LOC than in the NO-LOC ones (Table 6). A fa ...
on formal sector workers and only seldom t h e y provide non- contributory pensions to informal sector workers and their familie ...
Table 7. Coverage of non-contributory pensions in Latin America and Southern Africa, 2008 Source: HelpAgeInternational (2006b); ...
Table 8. Redistributive effect of budget operations in OECD (2005) and Latin America, around 2000s Source: compilation on Cetran ...
constituencies such as the urban and rural poor and focus on: programs aimed at simultaneously reducing poverty and e nsuring th ...
Program (reference year) Cost (GDP) N. Beneficiaries Monthly subsidy ($) Chile Solidario (Chile 2005) 0.08% 256.000 families 8 - ...
coefficient of the distribution of income (standardized in terms of Gini of household disposable income per capita)^55. Table 10 ...
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