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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Leonardo Gasparini

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    (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - FCE - UNLP)

  • Ezequiel Molina

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    (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - FCE - UNLP)

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Paper provided by CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata in its series CEDLAS, Working Papers with number 0041.

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Length: 66 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2006
Handle: RePEc:dls:wpaper:0041
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Keywords: income distribution; polarisation; cohesion; inequality; poverty; institutions; instability; conflict; corruption; Latin America; Caribbean;

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  • D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
  • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics

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  1. Serrano, Joaquín & Benzaquén, Ivana, 2017. "La frontera de posibilidades de desigualdad en América Latina," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(334), pages .427-461, abril-jun.
  2. Leonardo Gasparini & Matías Horenstein & Sergio Olivieri, 2006. "Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0038, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
  3. -, 2008. "Social Panorama of Latin America 2007," Panorama Social de América Latina, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), number 1228 edited by Eclac.
  4. Ricardo Bebczuk, 2009. "SME Access to Credit in Guatemala and Nicaragua: Challenging Conventional Wisdom with New Evidence," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0080, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
  5. Ricardo Bebczuk & Francisco Haimovich, 2007. "MDGs and Microcredit: An Empirical Evaluation for Latin American Countries," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0048, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
  6. Sebastian Galiani & Federico Weinschelbaum, 2012. "Modeling Informality Formally: Households And Firms," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 50(3), pages 821-838, 07.

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