The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.
The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines and many different institutions.
IFS CPP Co-Director Richard Blundell, Deputy Research Director Sonya Krutikova, Research Fellow Marcos Vera-Hernandez and Senior Research Economist Antonella Bancalari have all contributed to chapters in the review.
Access the supplement and the editorial here:
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