El presente modelo proporciona una explicacion al fenomeno de que la apertura comercial esta asociada a menores diferencias de ingresos en paises del Sudeste Asiatico y a mayor desigualdad en America Latina. Se muestra que las exportaciones de los paises latinoamericanos consisten en materias...

This paper revisits the earlier assessments of the Palma Proposition and the ‘Palma Ratio’. The former is a proposition that currently changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusively due to changes in the share of the richest 10 per cent and poorest 40 per cent because...