El articulo analiza la evolucion de la pobreza y la desigualdad rurales en America Latina a partir de inicios de la decada de 1980. Los autores concluyen que tras 20 anos de liberalizacion de las economias de la region, el numero de habitantes rurales pobers y el numero de aquellos que no tienen...

This paper compares objective and subjective definitions of the middle-class using data from the 2007 World Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure. Mismatches between the objective and subjective...

Corruption and income inequality have developed into a threat throughout Latin America. Their expansion generates a sense of urgency to confront the problem. Both perversely influence business decisions despite inherently sound macroeconomic reforms. Empirical evidence for twenty Latin American...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent...

En este articulo se pretende investigar los factores de la distribucion del ingreso en America Latina, prestando particular atencion, por un lado, a la relacion entre la distribucion y el ingreso y, por otro, al impacto del conjunto de reformas estructurales que se han aplicado en la region en...