Social Gains in the Balance : A Fiscal Policy Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

In 2012, the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region continued its successful drive to reduce poverty and build the middle class. The proportion of the region's 600 million people living in extreme poverty, defined in the region as life on less than $2.50 a day, was cut in half between 200...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Publication
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	absolute terms access to education Access to electricity access to running water access to sanitation access to schooling access to services Andean Region annual rate average annual average growth average income basic infrastructure capital accumulation capital gains Caribbean Region cash transfer programs cash transfers concentration coefficients consumption growth country level developed countries developed economies differences in income dimensional poverty direct transfers Disposable Income drivers of poverty reduction earning inequality economic development economic efficiency economic growth economic growth prospects economic performance equal distribution equitable access Estimates of poverty extreme poverty extreme poverty line extreme poverty lines farmers financial crisis GDP Gini coefficient Gini index growth rates health expenditures health insurance high correlation household head household income household survey household survey data Household surveys housing human capital impact analysis incidence analysis Income income concepts income distribution income groups Income growth income inequality income redistribution Income Share Income Source income transfer incomes individual countries inequality inequality reduction intergenerational mobility international poverty lines labor force Labor income labor market labor markets Low income macroeconomic implications macroeconomic stability Market Income mean income middle class minimum level negative coefficients net effect nutrition pensions per capita growth per capita growth rate per capita income Personal income Personal income taxes policy implications poor poor people poorer areas poverty changes poverty indices poverty lines poverty rate Poverty rates Poverty reduction poverty reduction strategy power parity private consumption private transfers productive potential Public expenditure public expenditures public goods public investment public spending public transfers quality of life real per capita income redistributional impact redistributive impact reducing inequality reducing poverty reduction in poverty reduction of income regional data regional growth regional level regional poverty regional reports running water rural rural areas rural household rural households rural regions sanitation school attendance schooling significant differences significant impact social progress social security social spending sub-region sub-regions sustainable growth targeting taxation unemployment vulnerable households Wages wellbeing
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