Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador (urban area) and Panama (urban area), the countries with largest gains in poverty reduction (in terms of percentage change in the rate), are precisely the same countries that saw the greatest increase in labour income per worker among poor households. Colombia is an exception, although it registered a significant increase in this variable, poverty was reduced at a much slower pace, in part due to an increase in unemployment. In the other countries, labour income per employed person tended to decline.