Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Célestin Monga
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Célestin Monga: United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Chapter 7 in Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, 2016, pp 212-247 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract High inequality is a characteristic feature of Latin America. After rising in the 1990s, however, income inequality in the region has declined while it has increased in other parts of the world. For the region as a whole, the Gini co efficient declined from an average of 0.550 in the early 2000s to 0.496 circa 2012. Of the 18 countries with available data, 16 experienced a decline in their Gini coefficient during this period. What explains this remarkable shift in inequality trends in Latin America?

Keywords: Income Inequality; Minimum Wage; Tertiary Education; Gini Coefficient; Latin American Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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