Declining Inequality in Latin America A Decade of Progress?

Name: Declining Inequality in Latin America A Decade of Progress?
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ISBN: 9780815704102

ISBN-10: 0815704100

ISBN-13: 9780815704102

Edition: 2010

Authors: Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Nora Claudia Lustig

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Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand what happened in these countries and why.Led by editors Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig, a panel of distinguished economists undertakes in-depth analyses of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. In addition, they provide essential background in the form of overviews of the relationship between markets and inequality, the political economy of…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 5/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.01" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Explaining the Decline in Inequality in Latin America: Technological Change, Educational Upgrading, and Democracy




Labor Earnings Inequality: The Demand for and Supply of Skills




The Political Economy of Redistributive Policies




The Dynamics of Income Concentration in Developed and Developing Countries: A View from the Top




A Distribution in Motion: The Case of Argentina




Markets, the State, and the Dynamics of Inequality in Brazil




Mexico: A Decade of Falling Inequality: Market Forces or State Action?




Inequality in Post-Structural Reform Peru: The Role of Market Forces and Public Policy



Contributors


Index