Latin America's Emerging Middle Classes: Economic Perspectives (International Political Economy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137320788 ISBN 13: 9781137320780

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

Politicians, business leaders and citizens look with hope to the Latin American middle class for political stability and purchasing power, but the economic position of the middle class remains vulnerable. The contributors document the remarkable emergence of this middle group in Latin America, whose measurement turns out not to be an easy task.

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João Pedro Azevedo, World Bank Poverty Global Practice Mauricio Cárdenas, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia Lourdes Casanova, Cornell University, USA Francesca Castellani, Inter-American Development Bank, USA Christian Daude, OECD Economics Directorate Juan Ramón De Laiglesia, International Labour Office Johanna Fajardo González, University of Minnesota, USA Hamlet Gutiérrez, General Directorate of Internal Revenue, Dominican Republic Camila Henao Arbeláez, University of Illinois, USA Homi Kharas, Brookings Institution, USA Luis Felipe López-Calva, World Bank Eduardo Lora, Harvard University, USA Nora Lustig, Tulane University, USA Ángel Melguizo, OECD Development Center Marcelo Neri, Brazilian Cabinet, Brazil Eduardo Ortiz-Juárez, UNDP's Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and Tulane University, USA Gwenn Parent, OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Henrique Renck eCornell Jannet Zenteno Gonzales, National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137320788
• ISBN 13: 9781137320780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Dayton-Johnson J.