Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality

We decompose changes in the Gini coefficient to investigate whether the Conditional Cash Tranfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brasil, Mexico and Chile. We conclude that CCT programs helped reducing inequality between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000...

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Main Authors: Sergei Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Fábio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros, Eduardo Zepeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: El Colegio de México, A.C. 2009-01-01
Series:Estudios Económicos
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Online Access:https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387