Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority

by Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Augusto de la Torre

Book Overview

Until recently, students of development have put much more energy into understanding the causes and consequences of absolute poverty than of inequality. But globalization--with its new opportunities for winners and losers, and its new insecurities and competitive pressures--is changing that. Nowhere is the issue of inequality more worrying than in Latin America, the setting for many of the world's most unequal societies. This book presents a dozen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933286164
• ISBN13: 9781933286167
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Center for Global Development
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"