1st Edition

Overcoming Inequality in Latin America Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century

Edited By Ricardo Gottschalk, Patricia Justino Copyright 2006
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, the causes and consequences of which are analytically examined here. Adopting a multidimensional approach, this informative book focuses on the mechanisms that lead to... Read more

List of Figures and Tables  List of Contributors  Foreword  Preface  Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction   2. Inequality in Latin America: Dimensions and Processes  Appendix A The Measurement of Inequality  Appendix B Poverty and Inequality in Latin America in the 1990s  3. The Interactions between Inequality and the Macro-economy in Latin America in the Post-Reform Context  4. Inequality in Latin America  5. Inequality and Trade in Latin America  6. The Political Economy of Inequality 7. Overcoming Inequality in Latin America

Biography

Ricardo Gottschalk is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Patricia Justino is a British Academy Research Fellow at the Poverty Research Unit and the department of Economics at the University of Sussex.