A Moment of Equality for Latin America?: Challenges for Redistribution (Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries)

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Synopsis
Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
284 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317187561
Related ISBNs:
9781315564920, 9781472446725, 9780367598013
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Barbara Fritz, Lena Lavinas
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Barbara Fritz
Edited by:
Lena Lavinas

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