Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?
Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?
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拉丁美洲不平等现象的减少：十年的进步？
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2010
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N. Lustig
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L. López;N. Lustig
拉丁美洲经常因其高度和持续的收入不平等而被挑出来。然而，到1990年代末，整个区域的收入集中度开始下降。在有可比数据的17个国家中，有12个国家出现了下降，特别是自2000年以来。这本书是第一次试图了解这些国家发生了什么以及为什么。由Felipe Li编辑领导？半佩斯-卡尔瓦和诺拉勒斯蒂格是一个由杰出经济学家组成的小组，他们对阿根廷、巴西、墨西哥和秘鲁进行了深入的分析。此外，它们还以概述市场与不平等之间的关系、再分配的政治经济学以及发达工业化经济体收入不平等的演变的形式提供了重要的背景。两个因素在很大程度上解释了不平等的下降：熟练劳动力和低技能劳动力之间的工资差距缩小，以及针对穷人的政府转移支付增加。由于这些文章的及时性和复杂性，《拉丁美洲不平等现象的减少》很可能成为该领域的标准参考。
Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand what happened in these countries and why. Led by editors Felipe Li?½pez-Calva and Nora Lustig, a panel of distinguished economists undertakes in-depth analyses of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. In addition, they provide essential background in the form of overviews of the relationship between markets and inequality, the political economy of redistribution, and the evolution of income inequality in the advanced industrialized economies. Two factors account for much of the decline in inequality: a decrease in the wage gap between skilled and low-skilled labor, and an increase in government transfers targeted to the poor. Thanks to the timeliness and sophistication of these essays, Declining Inequality in Latin America is likely to become a standard reference in its field.