Distributional incidence of Services in Latin America

MARCHIONNI, MARIANA; GLUZMANN, PABLO

Mendoza

Congreso; XLIV Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Economía Política; 2009

Asociación Argentina de Economía Política y Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

We perform a distributional incidence analysis to study the patterns describing access to adn expenditures on basic services in Latin American countries. The analysis concentrates on three types of services: social services (education and health), infrastructure services (public transport, water, electricity and gas), and telecommunication (fixed phone, cellular phone, and other telecommunication services). Because of data restrictions on consumption, the study is focused on eight countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru), but the analysis of access to services is extended to all Latin American countries.