Declining inequality in Latin America [electronic resource] : a decade of progress? / Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig, editors.

Contributor(s): Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe | Lustig, Nora | United Nations Development Programme | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2010Description: ix, 253 p. : illISBN: 9780815704447 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Income distribution -- Latin America | Equality -- Latin America | Latin America -- Economic policy -- 21st century | Latin America -- Social policy -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 339.2/2098 LOC classification: HC130.I5 | D43 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : explaining the decline in inequality in Latin America : technological change, educational upgrading, and democracy / Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig -- Labor earnings inequality : the demand for and supply of skills / Jaime Kahhat -- The political economy of redistributive policies / James A. Robinson -- The dynamics of income concentration in developed and developing countries : a view from the top / Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty -- A distribution in motion : the case of Argentina / Leonardo Gasparini and Guillermo Cruces -- Markets, the state, and the dynamics of inequality in Brazil / Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, and Rosane Mendonca -- Mexico : a decade of falling inequality : market forces or state action? / Gerardo Esquivel, Nora Lustig, and John Scott -- Inequality in post-structural reform Peru: the role of market forces and public policy / Miguel Jaramillo and Jaime Saavedra.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : explaining the decline in inequality in Latin America : technological change, educational upgrading, and democracy / Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig -- Labor earnings inequality : the demand for and supply of skills / Jaime Kahhat -- The political economy of redistributive policies / James A. Robinson -- The dynamics of income concentration in developed and developing countries : a view from the top / Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty -- A distribution in motion : the case of Argentina / Leonardo Gasparini and Guillermo Cruces -- Markets, the state, and the dynamics of inequality in Brazil / Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, and Rosane Mendonca -- Mexico : a decade of falling inequality : market forces or state action? / Gerardo Esquivel, Nora Lustig, and John Scott -- Inequality in post-structural reform Peru: the role of market forces and public policy / Miguel Jaramillo and Jaime Saavedra.

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