Declining Inequality in Latin America by Luis Felipe Lopez-Ca... - 9780815704102

Declining Inequality in Latin AmericaA Decade of Progress?\nAuthor(s): Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Nora Claudia Lustig\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Brookings Institution\nISBN-13: 9780815704102, 978-0815704102\nSynopsis\nLatin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand what happened in these countries and why.\nLed by editors Felipe Lpez-Calva and Nora Lustig, a panel of distinguished economists undertakes in-depth analyses of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. In addition, they provide essential background in the form of overviews of the relationship between markets and inequality, the political economy of redistribution, and the evo.