… Latin America’s inequality has deep historical roots and pervades contemporary institutions
The genesis of current structures of inequality lies in Latin America’s colonial past, and in …

… The central implications of our results are that the deep historical structural roots of inequality
in Latin America and the Caribbean weigh heavily on income distribution at the beginning …

… analysis on inequality in the … historical evidence and comparisons with other regions of
the world, the chapter is mostly concerned with the income inequality patterns in Latin America …

… Although the path of household income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean was
… in labor income inequality that closely mirrored that of household income inequality. This is …

… This section documents the pattern of income inequality in Latin American countries. Most
of the evidence corresponds to the period from 1992 to 2006. We start by presenting the main …

… disparities in education for 28 Latin American and Caribbean countries for the period from
… Caribbean countries had substantially lower gender inequality rates than Latin American …

… pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This … inequality in the 2000s have lost strength,
due to “natural” motives; and second, the external conditions faced by the Latin American …

… on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New … region
of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen …

… Inequality is a distinctive feature of Latin America due to its high level and persistence. After
rising in the 1990s, however, income inequality … that the decline in inequality is robust to the …

… of inequality in Latin America we find a negative effect of the strength of the democratic record
on inequality, as … If we now turn from differences within Latin America and the Caribbean to …