Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century

Chapter 3 The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile Since 1850

Chapter 4 Using Heights to Trace Living Standards and Inequality in Mexico Since 1850

Chapter 5 Long-Run Human Development in Mexico: 1895–2010

Chapter 6 Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions

Chapter 7 Historical Perspectives on Regional Income Inequality in Brazil, 1872–2000

Chapter 8 Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to the Present

Chapter 9 The Expansion of Public Spending and Mass Education in Bolivia: Did the 1952 Revolution Represent a Permanent Shock?

Chapter 10 The Lingering Face of Gender Inequality in Latin America

Chapter 11 Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America Since the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 12 Inequality in Latin America: ECLAC’s Perspective

Chapter 13 The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation

Chapter 14 The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile

Chapter 15 Structural Change and the Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America: Agricultural Development, Inter-sectoral Duality, and the Kuznets Curve

Chapter 16 Fiscal Policy and Inequality in Latin America, 1960–2012

Chapter 17 Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context