Has Latin American inequality changed direction? : looking over the long run /: looking over the long run. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Luis Bértola, Jeffrey Williamson, editors.
• Editors: Bértola, Luis; Williamson, Jeffrey G, 1935-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850 -- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992 -- Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010 -- Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions -- Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000 -- Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present -- Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America -- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century -- PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN -- Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America -- Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation -- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile -- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America -- Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve -- Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012 -- Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : SpringerOpen
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 419 pages)
• Subjects: 338.9; Income distribution -- Latin America; Equality -- Latin America; Poverty -- Latin America; Equality; Income distribution; Poverty; Social conditions; Social policy; Latin America -- Social policy; Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-; Latin America; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319446219; 3319446215
• Related ISBNs: 9783319446202; 3319446207
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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