Income distribution and the enterprise of the Americas initiative

In: Journal of Inter-American studies and world affairs, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 111-132

Abstract

The issue of the distribution of income is once again emerging as a critical component in the debates regarding Latin America's development path in the 1990s and as a factor underlying the proposed Enterprise of the Americas Initiative. After reviewing some of the hypotheses and recent findings from the research on income distribution in Latin America, the author contrasts the conditions of the growth decades of the 1960s and 1970s with the "lost decade" of the 1980s. He inquires what has been learned and what has been neglected during those years