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The surprising reduction of inequality during a commodity boom: what do we learn from Latin America?

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  • Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

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Past experience and economic theory lead us to expect a positive relationship between income inequality and commodity booms. Yet Latin America’s recent improvement in income distribution coincided with a rapid growth in commodity exports. How was this positive outcome possible? This paper answers this question using a combination of primary and secondary sources. It highlights the role of (re)distributive policies that enlarged the impact of labour market outcomes. The paper concludes that political pressures forced governments to manage the commodity boom better than in the past but did not lead to significant transformations in the region’s elite-driven development model.

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  • Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, 2021. "The surprising reduction of inequality during a commodity boom: what do we learn from Latin America?," Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 95-118, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jpolrf:v:24:y:2021:i:2:p:95-118
    DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2019.1628757
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    1. De Rosa, Mauricio & Flores, Ignacio & Morgan, Marc, 2022. "More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception," SocArXiv akq89, Center for Open Science.

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