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New World Bank study on Latin America
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New World Bank study on Latin America
David de Ferranti, Guillermo E. Perry,
Francisco Ferreira, Michael Walton:
Inequality in Latin America:
Breaking with History?
Washington, D.C, World Bank 2004, 380 pp., $ 28.00,
ISBN 0-8213-5665-8
To break with the long history of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, the continent’s elite needs to undertake deep reforms of political, social and economic institutions, improve access to vital services and assets and specify policies to help indigenous people and Afro-American minorities, a new World Bank study says. With the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America/the Caribbean has been the region with the world’s greatest inequality. The World Bank study explores why this region suffers from persistent inequality, identifies how that hampers development, and suggests ways to achieve greater equity in the distribution of wealth, incomes and opportunities. The study draws on data from 20 countries based on household surveys covering 3.6 million people and reviews economic, sociological and political science studies. (orb)
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