How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it difficult to an swer these ba sic qu estions. In this...

The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...

En diversas teorías se reconoce que el grado de cobertura en materia de infraestructura educativa, salud y comunicaciones, condiciona en nivel de desarrollo de un país. Al incidir en el nivel de competitividad, la productividad, la captación de inversión privada y la generación de empleos....

How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it difficult to an swer these ba sic qu estions. In this...

The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...

The modern capitalist revolution in Chile - the moment when the economic liberalism project was established as a stage prior to the Reagan and Thatcher governments, generating a radical break with the previous model (Gárate 2012) - immediately provoked a strong discussion on the implicit idea...

What do the wealthiest groups in society think about tax payment? What is their view of the role of the state? How do these perceptions influence the ways in which the government collects taxes and provides social spending? This paper addresses these questions focusing on the case of Chile....