This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income …. The new leftist regime.s social transfer policies helped reduce inequality further, but the continuation of Ecuador … inequality. …

This study assesses the evolution of inequality in Uruguay during 1981-2010, considered as subperiods built on the …-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … and despite recent redistributive reforms, continued to grow, albeit modestly, until 2007. In 2008 inequality lessened …

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 provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

be met. There are exceptions-education has expanded rapidly, although questions are raised about quality, and some …

This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels, and inequality measures for the period 1990 … implying greater inequality. …