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This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequalit...

Este documento presenta y discute un conjunto de estadísticas enfocadas a caracterizar el grado de polarización económica en los países de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). El estudio se basa en una base de datos de...

This paper takes advantage of a new source of information-the Gallup World Poll 2006-to estimate and characterize income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compar...

Our study critically surveys financial inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean countries, gauging access to both credit and deposit accounts by poor households. Our review confirms some pieces of conventional wisdom in...

Este trabajo provee evidencia sobre crecimiento y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). Los resultados se obtienen de microdatos provenientes de encuestas de hogares para 18 países en la región desde los 1990s ...

Este trabajo reporta información sobre la desigualdad del ingreso en América Latina y el Caribe, calculada a partir de una muestra de más de 50 encuestas de hogares de 20 países de LAC desde 1989 a 2001. Aunque la ma...

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in term...

Poverty still is one of the central problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As measured by international poverty lines, approximately one out of every five people in the region is poor. Consequently, the elimination...

Three tumor cell lines of lung (A549), colon (HT29) and breast (MDA-MB-231) were used to evaluate the antiproliferative effect of ethanol and dichloromethane extracts and seven fractions obtained by flash column chromato...

En este estudio se analiza la situación de los grupos afro-descendientes e indígenas con relación a los euro-descendientes y grupos mestizos utilizando microdatos de encuestas de hogares de 15 países de América Lati...

Este documento explora la relación entre la distribución del ingreso, las instituciones y los conflictos en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el uso de una nueva base de datos de estadísticas de la distribución de...

Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe, mediante la utilización de una gran base de datos de más de 100...

Este trabajo estudia la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe desde una perspectiva multidimensional, utilizando la Gallup World Poll, una encuesta que provee una oportunidad única para realizar comparaciones internaci...

The response of South American rivers to ENSO stimuli is studied under three conditions: El Niño (EN), Anti-Niño (AN), and normal years. A regionalization is thus obtained. Rivers in coastal Peru, Ecuador and extreme s...

The papers included in this special issue of the journal Económica are the result of a long period of gestation. I am glad to see that the final outcome contains substantial value added. The project is one of the activi...

Financial crises have become part of the economic landscape around the world and in Latin America in particular. Substantial effort is being nowadays devoted to understand and prevent crises, but less work has been advan...

This paper assesses the impact of the Liquidity Program for Growth Sustainability (LPGS) on Latin America and the Caribbean, instrumented by the IDB to confront the regional spillovers of the subprime crisis. This emerge...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the relation between exposure to glycaemia over time and the risk of macrovascular or microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. DESIGN: Prospective observational study. SETTING...