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GROWTH AND INCOME POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: EVIDENCE FROM HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
Author(s) -
Gasparini Leonardo,
Gutiérrez Federico,
Tornarolli Leopoldo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2007.00231.x
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , latin americans , poverty , economics , poverty reduction , development economics , household income , income distribution , demographic economics , geography , economic growth , inequality , political science , demography , census , population , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , sociology , law
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.