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 …