Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run /

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How ca...

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Tác giả khác: Bértola, Luis (Biên tập viên), Williamson, Jeffrey (Biên tập viên)
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Được phát hành: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Mục lục:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America
  • PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS
  • Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850
  • Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992
  • Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010
  • Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions
  • Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000
  • Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present
  • Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America
  • Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century
  • PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN
  • Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America
  • Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation
  • Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile
  • Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve
  • Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012
  • Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context.