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Other authors / contributors: | López-Calva, Luis Felipe, editor.
Lustig, Nora, editor.
United Nations Development Programme.
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ISBN: | 9780815704447 0815704445 1282558307 9781282558304 0815704100 9780815704102
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Declining inequality in Latin America. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2010 9780815704447
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