Declining inequality in Latin America
Subtitle: a decade of progress?
By: Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig, editors
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780815704102
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : explaining the decline in inequality in Latin America : technological change, educational upgrading, and democracy / Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig; title: Labor earnings inequality : the demand for and supply of skills / Jaime Kahhat; title: The political economy of redistributive policies / James A. Robinson; title: The dynamics of income concentration in developed and developing countries : a view from the top / Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty; title: A distribution in motion : the case of Argentina / Leonardo Gasparini and Guillermo Cruces; title: Markets, the state, and the dynamics of inequality in Brazil / Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, and Rosane Mendonca; title: Mexico : a decade of falling inequality : market forces or state action? / Gerardo Esquivel, Nora Lustig, and John Scott; title: Inequality in post-structural reform Peru: the role of market forces and public policy / Miguel Jaramillo and Jaime Saavedra.