Rural Latin America: exclusionary and uneven agricultural development / Crist∫£obal Kay -- Urban transformation and survival strategies / Sandor Halebsky -- Demilitarization and democratic transition in Latin America / Jorge Nef -- The contemporary Latin American economies : neoliberal...

High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are...