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Keywords
Inequality; development; Latin America;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2009-05-30 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAM-2009-05-30 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2009-05-30 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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