Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality

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Autor(a) principal: Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon
Data de Publicação: 2007
Outros Autores: Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro, Soares, Fabio Veras, Medeiros, Marcelo, Zepeda, Eduardo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
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Resumo: This Working Paper decomposes changes in the Gini coefficient in order to investigate whether Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its technique is the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor components. Its main finding is that CCT programmes helped reduce inequality between the mid-1990s and roughly the mid-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs has been very small: about 0.5 per cent in Mexico and Brazil and a very small 0.01 per cent in Chile. But since their targeting has been outstanding, their equalizing impact was responsible for about 21 per cent of the fall in both the Brazilian and the Mexican Gini index, each of which fell by approximately 2.7 points during the period that this paper reviewed. In Chile the effect was responsible for a 15 per cent reduction in inequality, although the total reduction in inequality was very modest: a mere 0.1 Gini point. The difference was due to the small size of the Chilean programme relative to the larger Mexican and Brazilian programmes.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
title Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
spellingShingle Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon
Distribution
Conditional Cash Transfers
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
title_short 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_sort Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
author Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon
author_facet Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon
Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro
Soares, Fabio Veras
Medeiros, Marcelo
Zepeda, Eduardo
author_role author
author2 Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro
Soares, Fabio Veras
Medeiros, Marcelo
Zepeda, Eduardo
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon
Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro
Soares, Fabio Veras
Medeiros, Marcelo
Zepeda, Eduardo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Distribution
Conditional Cash Transfers
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
topic Distribution
Conditional Cash Transfers
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
description This Working Paper decomposes changes in the Gini coefficient in order to investigate whether Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its technique is the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor components. Its main finding is that CCT programmes helped reduce inequality between the mid-1990s and roughly the mid-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs has been very small: about 0.5 per cent in Mexico and Brazil and a very small 0.01 per cent in Chile. But since their targeting has been outstanding, their equalizing impact was responsible for about 21 per cent of the fall in both the Brazilian and the Mexican Gini index, each of which fell by approximately 2.7 points during the period that this paper reviewed. In Chile the effect was responsible for a 15 per cent reduction in inequality, although the total reduction in inequality was very modest: a mere 0.1 Gini point. The difference was due to the small size of the Chilean programme relative to the larger Mexican and Brazilian programmes.
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