Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries where there are comparable data, and the change was statistically significant for all of them. Existing studies point to two main explanations for the decline in inequality: a...
