This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of land ownership adversely affected the emergence of human …

inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries …

Latin American countries have always been characterised by relatively high levels of income inequality, even taking … into account their degree of economic development. If such 'excess inequality' is combined with the fact that these are … in income inequality. This has resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of poverty in the region and an …

Cross-country studies have found a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The main …

inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data … and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

GDP per capita and within-country income inequality in the world today. Indicators of early development such as early … do not predict income inequality as well as measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of the current population …'s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …