This paper analyses the long-term growth and welfare impact of the transition to the market economy in the countries of Eastern Europe. We define welfare as the average real net wage after payments of social security contributions to fund a paygo-type pension system, and of taxes to service the...

Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America.s political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to .repoliticize. inequality and return...

This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redi$