in el salvador guatemala and mexico selfemployment income dropped and wages and salaries increased while in uruguay the opposite occurred in costa rica el salvador honduras and uruguay transfers accounted for over of the increase in total income in countries that saw their poverty reduced the most such as brazil chile ecuador and panama transfers accounted for about of the increase in total income it is not possible in every case to determine from available data exacdy which types of transfers resulted in income increases because surveys taken around tended to capture aggregate data