Declining Inequality in Latin America: Are the Good Times Over?

10:15 am-12:00 pm: Inequality, Mobility, the Middle-Class and the Rich

Joukowsky Forum

Income inequality in Latin America clearly declined in the 2000s. What are the salient aspects in the observed trends? What have been the main drivers of the decline in labor earnings inequality? What role has social policy played? Have the rich become richer even if earnings inequality declined? Has declining income inequality been accompanied by social progress more generally? How has the social map changed? What is the contribution of the Latin American elites to a socially inclusive and politically sustainable social contract?

Chair: Nora Lustig (Tulane University)

Francisco Ferreira (World Bank)

Luis F. López-Calva (World Bank)

Facundo Alvaredo (Paris School of Economics)

Tasha Fairfield (London School of Economics)

Florencia Torche (New York University)