Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run (Hardcover, 2017)

INTRODUCTION.- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America.- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS.- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850.- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992.- Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010.- Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions.- Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000.- Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present.- Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America.- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century.- PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN.- Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America.- Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation.- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile. .- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve.- Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012.- Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America.- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS.- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850.- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992.- Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010.- Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions.- Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000.- Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present.- Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America.- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century.- PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN.- Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America.- Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation.- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile.- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve.- Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012.- Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context.