believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in …

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and … trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth … development model include urban insecurity and rising crime, pollution, pressure on natural resources, congestion and social …