Inequality in Latin America

Ferranti, David de; Perry, Guillermo; Ferreira, Francisco; Walton, Michael

doi:10.1596/0-8213-5665-8

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“…The wealth gap between European Americans and African Americans and Hispanics in the United States has been extensively studied (50,107). Similarly, in Ibero-America, a correlation between greater wealth and higher levels of European ancestry has been documented, an observation whose significance is underlined by the fact that several of these countries have some of the most unequal wealth distribution in the world (33,82). The difference in wealth among American populations impacts on disease prevalence as wealth correlates with a range of environmental variables influencing disease risk (11,83).…”

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The Genetic Diversity of the Americas

Adhikari

Chacón-Duque

Mendoza‐Revilla

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Genom. Hum. Genet.

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The history of the Americas involved the encounter of millions of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. A variable admixture of these three continental groups has taken place between them throughout the continent, influenced by demography and a range of social factors. These events have had a major influence on the genetic makeup of populations across the continent. Here, we summarize the demographic history of the region, highlight some social factors that affected historical admixture, and review major patterns of diversity across the Western Hemisphere based on genetic data.2

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The Genetic Diversity of the Americas

Adhikari

Chacón-Duque

Mendoza‐Revilla

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Genom. Hum. Genet.

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“…The conventional view answers all three questions in the affirmative. International agencies and academics have agreed that Latin America's inequality of non-human capital and of political power yields less education and more unequal human capital, thus reinforcing the initial inequalities Mariscal and Sokoloff 2000;DeFerranti et al 2004;Ioschpe 2004;Frankema 2009;Engerman et al, 2009;Nugent and Robinson 2010;Wegenast 2010).…”

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The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

Lindert¹

2010

RHE / JILAEH

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Focusing on education-income anomalies, in which a richer country delivers less education than a poorer country, seems a promising way to harvest a part of the rich history that does not lend itself to econometrics. To test the chain of alleged causation from unequal power and wealth to poor schooling, one must follow the public money, or lack of it, in as many contexts as the data will allow. Public funding for mass schooling is the hitherto untested middle link in the chain. The key to Latin America's poor schooling was the failure to supply tax money, not gender discrimination or any shortfall in market demand for skills. The most glaring anomalies were the Venezuelan and Argentine failures to supply the levels of tax support for mass schooling that their high income could have afforded.Keywords: inequality, education, public sector, Latin America, Venezuela, Argentina JEL Code: N36, I22 RESUMENEste artículo estudia algunas irregularidades de la relació n entre educació n y renta, por la que los países ricos ofrecen menos educació n que los pobres.

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“…Nonetheless, the available measures offer the right qualitative contrasts, even when they overstate the redistributive part of public pensions. 15 DeFerranti et al (2004), Lindert et al (2006), Braceda et al (2009), Lustig et al (2011, Buchele et al (2013), Sauma and Trejos (2014), and Public Finance Review (2014). Lustig et al (2011), Sauma andTrejos (2014, Fig.…”

Section: New Light On the Social Expenditure Side: Today's Redistribumentioning

confidence: 99%