Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?

Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9789047429357
ISBN-13 : 9047429354
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Book Synopsis Has Latin America Always Been Unequal? by : Ewout Frankema

Download or read book Has Latin America Always Been Unequal? written by Ewout Frankema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces of industrialisation, urbanisation, globalisation and technological change have washed away the pre-modern outlook of most Latin American economies. Despite the improved opportunities of social mobility offered by economic modernisation, current income inequality levels (still) appear extraordinary high. Has Latin America always been unequal? Did the region fail to settle a longstanding account with its colonial past? Or should we be reluctant to point our finger so far back in time? In a comparative study of asset and income distribution Frankema shows that both the levels, and nature, of income inequality have changed significantly since 1870. Besides the deep historical roots of land and educational inequality, more recent demographic and political-institutional forces are taken on board to understand Latin America’s distributive dynamics in the long twentieth century.


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