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The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America's Post-Adjustment Era

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Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below.

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  • Kenneth Roberts, 2012. "The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America's Post-Adjustment Era," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2012-008, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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