A Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

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This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the significant increases of the 1980s and 1990s. There have been some significant improvements toward the reduction in inequalities in the access to primary and secondary education, and to some services (water, sanitation, electricity, cell phones). However, there is an increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the access to tertiary education, and important differences in the access to new technologies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 81

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Statistical Simulation Methods: General ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Analysis of Education ; Labor Demand ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: inequality ; distribution ; education ; Latin America ; Caribbean ; Einkommensverteilung ; Haushaltseinkommen ; Bildungsniveau ; Lateinamerika ; Karibische Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gasparini, Leonardo ; Cruces, Guillermo ; Tornarolli, Leopoldo ; Marchionni, Mariana
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
• (where): La Plata
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127597
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET