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Title:

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

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Income distribution--Latin America.
Latin America--Economic policy--21st century.
Latin America--Social policy--21st century.
Equality--Latin America.

Other Authors:

López-Calva, Luis Felipe.
Lustig, Nora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0815704100 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815704102 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)636095471

LCCN:

2010008554

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)