The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...

To ensure financial market stabilities, many Latin America countries implemented pure floating and inflation targeting (FIT) policies following the IMF's suggestions. The effectiveness of such policies is under investigation. This paper examines the long-run relationship between the real...

This paper analyses and documents new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela based on dynamic social tables with four occupational groups. This enables the calculation of comparable Overall (4 groups) and Labor Ginis (3 groups) with their...

During the 2000-2017 period, most Latin American and South Asian countries experienced relatively high rates of economic growth and their poverty rates reduced significantly. Although economic growth by itself is an important variable when discussing poverty, the redistributive role of the State...

During 2000-2017, Latin America (LA) achieved an annual growth rates of GDP of 2.6%. This generated an increase in the average monthly salary and a reduction in the Gini index. However, said improvements were unequal among the region, causing social strain and discontent in the groups that were...

This paper analyses, for the first time, comparable income shares of the top 10%, the middle 50% and the bottom 40% of the labour force in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (LA6) from 1920 to 2011 using a new dataset. The main findings are: i) over the whole period the LA6...

This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post-war years and became more technologically sophisticated,...