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This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
List of contents
- Part I: Inequality Changes and the Surfacing of New Policy Approaches
- 1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Recent Distributive Changes in Latin America: An Overview
- 2: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2010
- 3: Kenneth M. Roberts: The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America's Post-Adjustment Era
- Part II: Recent Inequality Changes in Six Representative Latin American Countries
- 4: Juan Ponce and Rob Vos: Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
- 5: Dante Contreras and Ricardo Ffrench-Davis: Policy Regimes, Inequality, Poverty and Growth: The Chilean Experience, 1973-2010
- 6: Véronica Amarante, Marco Colafranceschi, and Andrea Vigorito: Uruguay's Income Inequality and Political Regimes over 1981-2010
- 7: Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Gerardo Esquivel, and Nora Lustig: The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010
- 8: Carlos Acevedo and Maynor Cabrera: Social Policies or Private Solidarity? The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El Salvador
- 9: Stephan Klasen, Thomas Otter, and Carlos Villalobos Barría: The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy
- Part III: Main Policy Changes and Inequality during the Last Decade
- 10: Mario Damill and Roberto Frenkel: Macroeconomic Policies, Growth, Employment, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
- 11: Miguel Székely and Claudia Sámano-Robles: Trade and Income Distribution in Latin America: Is There Anything New to Say?
- 12: Saúl N. Keifman and Roxana Maurizio: Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies and their Impact on Wage Inequality during the Last Decade
- 13: Richard B. Freeman: What Can Latin America Learn from China's Labour Market Reforms?
- 14: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini, and Bruno Martorano: Tax Policy and Income Distribution during the Last Decade
- 15: Guillermo Cruces, Carolina García Domench, and Leonardo Gasparini: Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
- 16: Armando Barrientos: On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America
About the author
Since 2000, Giovanni Andrea Cornia has taught economics at the University of Florence. Prior to that he was the Director of UNU-WIDER and held research positions in various UN agencies. He has lectured in several Italian and foreign universities in both developing and developed countries and has been visiting professors or visiting scholars in six universities. Since 2010 he has been a member of Committee for Development Policies of the United Nations. His main research interests are in the field of development economics, and in particular in the fields of macroeconomics, inequality, poverty, and, political economy as well as food security, famines, and child wellbeing. In all these areas he has published extensively.
Summary
This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
