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

Type Journal Article - Estudios económicos
Title Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: impacts upon inequality
Author(s)
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
Page numbers 207-224
URL http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3006356
Abstract
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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