This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … effect of remittances and foreign direct investment is lower on economic growth and inequality than the individual effect of … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances …