Chronicle of a Deceleration Foretold : Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the drivin...

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Autores principales: Gasparini, Leonardo, Cruces, Guillermo, Tornarolli, Leopoldo
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/65247
http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas198.pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
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América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
Gasparini, Leonardo
Cruces, Guillermo
Tornarolli, Leopoldo
Chronicle of a Deceleration Foretold : Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
description After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength, due to “natural” motives; and second, the external conditions faced by the Latin American economies have worsened in the early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult.
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title Chronicle of a Deceleration Foretold : Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
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