Measuring Inequality in Latin America

This workshop/meeting was held in San Jose, Costa Rica in August 2004, and will serve as a template for similar sessions in Monterrey, Mexico in November and in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in January 2005. The result of these meetings will be a new network for monitoring inequality through the whole Central and Latin American region.

The workshop consisted of eight sessions, conducted in English by James Galbraith, Chair of Ecaar's Board and Director of the University of Texas Inequality Project, and in Spanish by Enrique Garcilazo, co-author with Dr. Galbraith of the recent paper Unemployment, Inequality and the Policy of Europe, 1984–2000 in the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review. The participants were senior economists and (in several cases) former ministers from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

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