Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?
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Keywords
polarisation; cohesion; inequality; Latin America; Caribbean;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2006-07-09 (Development)
- NEP-LAM-2006-07-09 (Central and South America)
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