Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?

By Editors: Luis Lopez-Calva & Noral Lustig

In Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? (Brookings Press, 2010) editors Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig bring together leading scholars and policymakers to examine the decline of inequality in the region. Since the late 1990s, income concentration has fallen throughout Latin America. The book’s contributors take an in-depth look at four countries—Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru—to determine the primary impetus to this trend. The book reveals two leading factors that may account for the reduced inequality: the narrowing of the earnings gap between skilled and low-skilled workers and the increase of government transfers to the poor.

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