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

Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares (), Rafael Guerreiro Osorio, Fábio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros () and Eduardo Zepeda
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Fábio Veras Soares: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada
Eduardo Zepeda: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Estudios Económicos, 2009, vol. -, issue Special issue, pages 207-224

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: Brazil, 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.

Keywords: Conditional Cash Transfers; CCT; inequality; Gini decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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