Ricardo Gottschalk / Patricia Justino (eds.)

Overcoming Inequality in Latin America

Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century
Herausgeber: Gottschalk, Ricardo; Justino, Patricia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, and the situation has deteriorated considerably over the past few years. This book analytically examines both the causes and consequences of inequality in Latin America. "Overcoming Inequality in Latin America" adopts a multidimensional approach to understanding the fundamental causes of inequality in the region, focusing on the mechanisms that lead to higher inequality and emphasising the role of macroeconomics, trade rules, capital flows and the political electoral process. This book analyses how inequality has hindered development, how it interacts with a nation's economic, social and political processes, and how inequality constrains the above processes in ways that weakens the prospect of establishing and sustaining a dynamic, wealthy and creative society. Examinining thekey economic policies and reforms which have exacerbated the region's extremely high inequality levels, this book prescribes an alternative range of policy suggestion to help alleviate inequality and provide the foundations for more equitable development. An international team of specialist contributors elucidate these crucial issues and the result is a book which will prove an invaluable resource across a number of fields including development economics and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415362849
• ISBN-10: 0415362849
• Artikelnr.: 22049597

Autorenporträt

Ricardo Gottschalk is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Patricia Justino is a British Academy Research Fellow at the Poverty Research Unit and the department of Economics at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Foreword Preface
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Inequality in
Latin America: Dimensions and Processes Appendix A The Measurement of
Inequality Appendix B Poverty and Inequality in Latin America in the 1990s
3. The Interactions between Inequality and the Macro-economy in Latin
America in the Post-Reform Context 4. Inequality in Latin America 5.
Inequality and Trade in Latin America 6. The Political Economy of
Inequality 7. Overcoming Inequality in Latin America