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This project investigates several issues, such as: (i) distilling the policy lessons (for Latin America itself and other countries) arising from the 'Open Economy Redistribution With Growth' (OERWG) model developed during the last decade, with particular attention to the gains in the field of growth, inequality and poverty reduction; (ii) testing whether the policy shift which followed the transition to democracy and the election of centre-left and other regimes contributed to the growth acceleration and inequality decline of 2002-08; (iii) identify best practice policies in the policy areas illustrated above; (iv) analyse the extent of their distributive and growth effects; (v) assess the future sustainability of OERWG model, given the hurdles Latin American governments still face; (vi) discuss the problems of the OERWG model in the fields of industrial policy and diversification of output-exports towards the technology-intensive manufacturing sector; (vii) examine how Latin America can raise its domestic savings and reduce its costly dependence on volatile foreign savings; (viii) propose an extended version of the OERWG model addressing the structural handicaps still hampering improvements in the field of growth, inequality and poverty reduction in the region.
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Inequality in Latin America: The Role of Conditional Cash Transfer – An Interview with Armando Barrientos
24 January 2014 In this interview Professor Armando Barrientos reviews the recent UNU-WIDER project on inequality in Latin America which looks at the regional trend of decreasing inequality since 2000 and the reasons behind it...
Equality and inequality Poverty Public welfareWorking Paper
The Development Implications of External Integration in Latin AmericaThis paper analyses the links between the integration into the international economy and development in Latin America over the past quarter century...
Economic integration Foreign exchange International tradeWorking Paper
The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy: Honduras, 1991–2007We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries...
Education Equality and inequality Household surveyWorking Paper
Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies: Their Impact on Wage Inequality During the Last DecadeLabour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically...
Equality and inequality Labour Labour marketWorking Paper
Social Policies or Private Solidarity?: The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El SalvadorThis paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s...
Emigrant remittances Equality and inequality Internal migrationWorking Paper
Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000sThis study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades...
Education Equality and inequality PovertyWorking Paper
Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2010The paper reviews the steady and widespread decline in income inequality which has taken place in most of Latin America over 2002-10 and which––if continued for another 2-3 years––would reduce the average regional income inequ...
Economic policy Education Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America’s Post-Adjustment EraDeclining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America’s political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below...
Democratization Equality and inequality Income distributionWorking Paper
Policy Regimes, Inequality, Poverty and Growth: The Chilean Experience, 1973-2010Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time...
Economic policy Income distribution MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America? Evidence for the Years 1980–2010This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness–inequality relationship in Latin America. We present three contributions...
Education Equality and inequality Household surveyWorking Paper
Uruguay’s Income Inequality and Political Regimes during 1981–2010This study assesses the evolution of inequality in Uruguay during 1981-2010, considered as subperiods built on the basis of the main policy regimes observed: extreme right (1981-84), centre-right (1985-89), right (1990-2004), and centre-left (2005-10...
Education Income distribution Decision making (Public administration)Working Paper
Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin AmericaThis paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000...
Education Income distribution Wage differentialsWorking Paper
On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin AmericaThe paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implicati...
Economic policy Equality and inequality Social securityBlog
Reversing Inequality in Latin America
Annett Victorero Latin America has for a long time been synonymous with high inequality, economic instability and authoritarian politics...
Equality and inequality Local historyBlog
The View from Buenos Aires
Tony Addison A visit to Buenos Aires in September provided a good vantage point to look at the euro zone’s deepening crisis. Angle readers will recall that Argentina went through a painful adjustment process some ten years ago...
Agriculture Depressions Economic developmentProject meeting
The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America
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