-country inequality in Latin America from a historical perspective. By comparing the two globalization waves (1870-1914, 1970-present) we … look at the link between globalization and inequality. Many Latin American countries are still dependent on exporting raw … materials, lack an efficient manufacturing sector, and exhibit the highest inequality rates in the world. One hundred years ago …

economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This … article surveys the key mechanisms of the globalization-inequality relationship. Four strands of literature are reviewed … generate most of the observed facts on trade and inter-skill group inequality, but also between unequally talented workers …

timing of such high levels of income inequality. Latin America was also the region, not including European Offshoots, which … estimate of income inequality in the Southern Cone of South America (Brazil 1872 and 1920, Chile 1870 and 1920, Uruguay 1920 …) and some assumptions concerning Argentina (1870 and 1920), and Uruguay (1870). We find an increasing inequality trend …

(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa …

We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly … display rather conflicting results. Most cross-country studies find a weak impact of globalization on income inequality. In … correlation between openness and the relative demand for skill and inequality. These apparently conflicting findings reflect the …

critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive … comparing PPP and Market Exchange Rate measures of inequality it shows that what really took place, in the closing decades of … goods masked a systematic failure, for much of the third world, to overcome the central problem of development – the high …