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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bértola, Luis (Editor), Bértola, Luis. editor (editor), Williamson, Jeffrey. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2017
Cham : 2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
Materias:
Economic history.
Latin America—Economic conditions.
Social structure.
Equality.
Political economy.
Economic growth.
Economic History.
Latin American and Caribbean Economics.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
International Political Economy.
Economic Growth.
Development Economics
Economic Growth
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Political Economy
Latin American Culture
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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