Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context of ri...

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Autores principales: Tornarolli, Leopoldo, Ciaschi, Matías, Galeano, Luciana María
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Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/68881
http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas234.pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
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América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
Tornarolli, Leopoldo
Ciaschi, Matías
Galeano, Luciana María
Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
description While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income inequality in the region has caught the attention of researchers and policy makers around the world. Taking advantage of a large database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality in all Latin American countries for the period 1992-2015. It also provides an analysis of how the distinctive evolution of income inequality in this century in Latin America has changed the position of the different countries of the region in both, the global distribution of income in the world and the global distribution of income in Latin America. Finally, the paper decomposes the evolution of income inequality in several countries of the region, discussing the role played by several factors on that evolution.
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Ciaschi, Matías
Galeano, Luciana María
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Ciaschi, Matías
Galeano, Luciana María
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title Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_short Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_full Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_fullStr Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
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title_sort income distribution in latin america: the evolution in the last 20 years: a global approach
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