This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness - inequality relationship in Latin America … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …

and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth … inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health … Rica, geographic isolation in El Salvador, and educational inequality among the indigenous in Mexico. The book describes …