For instance, in the early 2000s, although Latin America registered a rate of economic growth higher than the world average that contributes to reducing poverty ( Amarante et al., 2016 ), recent empirical evidence indicates an increasing trend on income inequality from 2010 to today ( Gasparini et al., 2016 ; Zmerli and Castillo, 2015 ).
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Similarly, Campos-Vázquez and Monroy-Gómez-Franco (2016) observed that economic growth reduced poverty in some federal entities; however, at a national level, the impact is almost insignificant.