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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| author | Sergei Soares Rafael Guerreiro Osório Fábio Veras Soares Marcelo Medeiros Eduardo Zepeda |
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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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| spelling | doaj.art-e452616e0ec04022a11abf530e2892d02023-02-20T17:35:32ZengEl Colegio de México, A.C.Estudios Económicos0188-69160186-72022009-01-0110.24201/ee.v0i0.387Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequalitySergei Soares0Rafael Guerreiro Osório1Fábio Veras Soares2Marcelo Medeiros3Eduardo Zepeda4Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica AplicadaInternational Poverty Centre, UNDPInstituto de Pesquisa Econômica AplicadaInstituto de Pesquisa Econômica AplicadaCarnegie Endowment for International Peace 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. https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387Conditional Cash TransfersCCTInequalityGini decomposition |
| spellingShingle | Sergei Soares Rafael Guerreiro Osório Fábio Veras Soares Marcelo Medeiros Eduardo Zepeda Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality Estudios Económicos Conditional Cash Transfers CCT Inequality Gini decomposition |
| title | Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality |
| title_full | Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality |
| title_fullStr | Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality |
| title_short | Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality |
| title_sort | conditional cash transfers in brazil chile and mexico impacts upon inequality |
| topic | Conditional Cash Transfers CCT Inequality Gini decomposition |
| url | https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387 |
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