Productivity, social expenditure and income distribution in Latin America /

his paper discusses the role of institutions and structural change in shaping income inequality. It is argued that while social expenditure and direct redistribution are crucial for improving income distribution, sustainable equality requires structural change to create decent jobs. The relative imp...

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Format: eBook
Language:Spanish
Published: Santiago de Chile : United Nations, 2015
Series:Production development ; no. 201
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Online Access:Repositorio digital CEPAL

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505 0 |a 1. Introduction .-- 2. The production structure, institutions and income distribution .-- 3. The role of institutions .-- 4. The production structure and income distribution .-- 5. The political economy of unstable equilibrium .-- 6. A simple model of structural change and redistribution .-- 7. Concluding remarks. 
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