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<journal-id>0185-1667</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Investigación económica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Inv. Econ]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-1667</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Economía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-16672023000200051</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/fe.01851667p.2023.324.82168</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Impact of Economic Growth and Social Expenditure on Poverty Reduction. Panel VAR Analysis for Some Latin American Countries, 2000-2019]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El impacto del crecimiento económico y el gasto social en la reducción de la pobreza. Análisis de panel VAR para algunos países de américa latina, 2000-2019]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez Dávila]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Elmer]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Faculty of Economics ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Peru</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>82</volume>
<numero>324</numero>
<fpage>51</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-16672023000200051&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-16672023000200051&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-16672023000200051&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic growth and social public spending on poverty reduction through a panel of eight Latin America countries along the period of 2000 to 2019. In order to do this, a Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model is applied. The results show that economic growth has the strongest influence on poverty reduction, in both short and long run; and, while the impact of social protection expenditure does not seem to be significant on short forecast horizons, it seems to be in the long run. According to our forecast error variance decomposition, around 40% of poverty variation is due to a change in economic growth; while almost 16% due to a change in social protection expenditure.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el impacto del crecimiento económico y del gasto público social en la reducción de la pobreza por medio de un panel de ocho países de América Latina a lo largo del periodo de 2000 a 2019. Para ello, se aplica un modelo panel de vectores autorregresivos (PVAR). Los resultados muestran que el crecimiento económico es la variable que más influye, tanto en el corto como en el largo plazo, en la reducción de la pobreza; mientras que el impacto de la protección social no parece ser significativo en horizontes de corto plazo, pero si en el largo plazo. Según los resultados obtenidos de nuestra descomposición de la varianza del error, alrededor del 40% de la variación de la pobreza se debe a un cambio en el crecimiento económico; mientras que casi el 16% se debe a un cambio en el gasto de protección social.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[reducción de la pobreza]]></kwd>
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