Declining inequality in Latin America a decade of progress? / Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig, editors.

Other author López-Calva, Luis Felipe.
Other author Lustig, Nora.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,
Descriptionix, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010008554
ISBN9780815704102 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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