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Income Mobility In Latin America, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Income Mobility In Latin America, Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] In the last decades Latin American countries have experienced substantial macroeconomic instability. While the region as a whole experienced economic growth during most of the 1990’s and 2000’s, there were also years of stagnation as well as economic decline.
How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequality In The Course Of Economic Growth?, Gary S. Fields
How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequality In The Course Of Economic Growth?, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
This paper asks how much we should care about changes in Lorenz curves and standard inequality measures when economic growth takes place. I conclude that these changes are of some importance but that other aspects of inequality and poverty are more important.