Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America

Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America PDF Author: Stephan Klasen
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ISBN: 9780262309158
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Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Book Description
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are affected by economic policy. In this book, experts on Latin American economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of policy to address them. Contributors first analyze the historical evolution of inequality in Latin America, ex.