@article{ref1,
title="Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality",
journal="Estudios Económicos (Mexico)",
year="2009",
author="Medeiros, M. and Soares, F. V. and Osorio, R. G. and Zepeda, E. and Soares, S.",
volume="",
number="",
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: 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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0186-7202",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}