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...

When and why do countries redistribute land to the landless? What political purposes does land reform serve, and what place does it have in today's world? A long-standing literature dating back to Aristotle and echoed in important recent works holds that redistribution should be both higher and...

Economic and development policies in Latin America, as in all other developing countries, are supposed to tackle the problem how to increase total income and, at the same time, how to reduce the present inequalities in the distribution of income. The opinions on the question, which of these...