Chronicle of a Deceleration Foretold: Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s

Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces and Leopoldo Tornarolli

CEDLAS, Working Papers from CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: D63 I31 J11 J21 J31 J82 N36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2016-05
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