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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gasparini, Leonardo, Cruces, Guillermo, Tornarolli, Leopoldo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/12772
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/12772
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Inequality
Income
Distribution
Latin America
Desigualdad
Ingresos
Distribución
América Latina
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Sumario: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