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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 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...

Este trabajo presenta estadísticas sobre desigualdad del ingreso para América Latina y el Caribe. La información proviene de una base de datos con más de 50 encuestas de hogares para 20 países y comprende años desd...

Este trabajo tiene dos principales objetivos. Por un lado, evaluar la confiabilidad de las medidas de pobreza y desigualdad en Chile, así como su robustez a cambios metodológicos. En particular, se evalúa el impacto e...

Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, thus leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled...

Esta nota utiliza técnicas computacionales como el bootstrap para obtener estimaciones por intervalos y errores estándar para las medidas de desigualdad. Adicionalmente, esta metodología es utilizada para implementar ...

Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of star...

The central objective of this paper is to study the links between changes in Argentina's integration to the world economy and the growth of income inequality and poverty. To that aim, both phenomena are described and the...

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...

Latin America and the Caribbean is known worldwide as the most unequal region on the planet. However, all the academic attention given to its levels of poverty and income distribution has not been matched by the study of...

Using data from the National Urban Employment Survey, 1988-1999, this paper tries to separate the local and the national forces behind the increasing wage inequality in Mexico. The paper analyzes the trend of 3 different...

In the face of socioeconomic challenges, this paper develops and empirically demonstrates the Gondauri Index (GI) as a reproducible, diagnostics-first composite framework for benchmarking macro-financial resilience acros...

Abstract Purpose This study examines the demographic, spatial, and economic determinants of household access to electricity in Nigeria, a country characterized by persistent energy poverty and pronounced infrastructure i...

O artigo propõe um modelo para explicar o processo mediante o qual os jovens se tornam cidadãos participativos. Veremos que este ocorre de duas formas complementares. A primeira é a transmissão imediata, embora, em g...

Abstract Background Contraceptive use is integral to improving reproductive health outcomes, but disparities in access and use persist across Africa, influenced by socio-economic, educational, and age-related factors. Th...

In this article, we study an infinite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We analyze the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) variational inequality which characterizes the value function and ...

BackgroundHormone-sensitive cancers (HSCs) pose a significant threat to women’s health, with global rising incidence rates. This study provides the most up-to-date assessment of the global burden of HSCs.MethodsWe retr...

Abstract What is the status of women in the discipline of International Relations (IR) in Brazil? This study provides a pioneering map of gender issues in Brazilian IR, focusing on inequality, discrimination and harassme...

Latin America exhibits one of the highest rates of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) loss worldwide along with a remarkable asymmetry in the access to ES benefits (ecosystem services inequality, ESI hereafter). Th...

This article offers a normative defence of using neighbourhood demographic quotas to deconcentrate residential clusters of advantage. It develops the case by detailing problems of inequality that arise from this kind of ...

During 2020–2024, developing countries faced global financial turbulence caused by a cascade of exogenous shocks (COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical crises, inflationary pressure), leading to a significant deterioration i...

This paper investigates the role of elite philanthropy in the context of rising global inequality, asking whether large-scale philanthropic donations by elites are well placed to help tackle structural inequality. The ch...