%0 Journal Article
%T Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality
%J Estudios Económicos (Mexico)
%D 2009
%A Medeiros, M.
%A Soares, F. V.
%A Osorio, R. G.
%A Zepeda, E.
%A Soares, S.
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%N 
%P 207-224
%X 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 />
%G 
%I El Colegio de Mexico
%@ 0186-7202
%U http://dx.doi.org/