Nº 30 (December, 2005). Leonardo Gasparini, Federico Gutiérrez & Leopoldo Tornarolli. 

This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin America and the  Caribbean  (LAC).  Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC  countries covering the  1990s  and early  2000s. Over this period the LAC economies experienced very heterogeneous patterns of growth and poverty changes. Most countries in the region had a rather meager performance in terms of poverty reduction. Episodes of positive, significant and unambiguously pro-poor income growth have been rare in Latin America.