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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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El Colegio de México, A.C.
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Estudios Económicos |
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| Online Access: | https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387 |
| Summary: | 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-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs is very small, less than 1%. But as their targeting is outstanding, the equalising impact of CCTs was responsible for about 21% of the fall in Brazilian and Mexican inequality figures In Chile the effect was responsible for around 15% of the reduction.
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| ISSN: | 0188-6916 0186-7202 |