Until recently, students of development have put much more energy into understanding the causes and consequences of absolute poverty than of inequality.
Until recently, students of development have put much more energy into understanding the causes and consequences of absolute poverty than of inequality. But globalizationwith its new opportunities for winners and losers, and its new insecurities and competitive pressuresis changing that. Nowhere is the issue of inequality more worrying than in Latin America, the setting for many of the worlds most unequal societies. This book presents a dozen ideas or tools meant to make life in Latin America more equitable and fair for the great majority of its people.