Observatory for Inequality in Latin America

IDB

IDB’s Poverty and Inequality database
The Information System Social Indicators and Equity (EQxIS) is a tool developed by the Poverty and Inequality Unit (SDS/POV) to monitor disaggregated data on social indicators, in particular, those proposed for measuring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. This disaggregation measures discrepancies among different population groups. EQxIS displays social indicators by income quintile, gender, urban/rural area and race/ethnicity, using information from the households surveys Databank of the MECOVI Program for 20 countries. Information is displayed via charts and tables generated on-line and is easily exportable.

IADB Inter-American Development Bank/Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID

The Global Link database consolidates more than 500 statistical indicators on macroeconomics, social development, trade, markets and governance in IDB member countries in the Americas.

Links to individual databases (which the above database consolidates)

IADB/BID MECOVI - Household Surveys Initiative
Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI)  - Recognizing the importance of having adequate information on poverty for the design, implementation, and monitoring of policies, in 1997 the Bank in conjunction with the World Bank and ECLAC has implemented the Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI). This page provides information on the project.

IDB Household surveys databank