Assessing Aggregate Welfare: Growth and Inequality in Argentina

Leonardo Gasparini and Walter Sosa Escudero ()

Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 2001, vol. 38, issue 113, 49-71

Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to complement the Argentine mean income series from National Accounts with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series, which are a better measure of economic performance than the commonly used per capit

Keywords: Income Distribution; inequality; welfare; Latin America; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C4 D3 D6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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