Declining inequality in Latin America : a decade of progress? /

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Imprint:New York : United Nations Development Programme ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11222142
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Other authors / contributors:López-Calva, Luis Felipe, editor.
Lustig, Nora, editor.
United Nations Development Programme.
ISBN:9780815704447
0815704445
1282558307
9781282558304
0815704100
9780815704102
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 Lpez-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.
Other form:Print version: Declining inequality in Latin America. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2010 9780815704447