Economic and development policies in Latin America, as in all other developing countries, are supposed to tackle the problem how to increase total income and, at the same time, how to reduce the present inequalities in the distribution of income. The opinions on the question, which of these...

Economic growth leads, according to Kuznets, at first to glaring income disparities and only when a certain state of development has been reached to a levelling of incomes. Translating this thesis to the developing countries, one would have to assume that there exists a constant conflict of...