Transferencias monetarias condicionadas en Brasil, Chile y México: impactos sobre la desigualdad

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...

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Auteurs principaux: Soares, Sergei, Guerreiro Osório, Rafael, Veras Soares, Fábio, Medeiros, Marcelo, Zepeda, Eduardo
Format: Online
Langue:anglais
Éditeur: El Colegio de México, A.C. 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/387
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Estudios Económicos

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Résumé: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.