"Markets, the State and the Dynamics of Inequality: Brazil´s Case Study"
Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco and Rosane Mendonça

In this study we seek to estimate the contribution of key aspects of Brazilian public policy and labor market performance in reducing income inequality. We focus on four main aspects: 1) government transfers, 2) earnings differentials per educational level, 3) spatial and sector labor market integration, and 4) minimum wage.

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"An Ordinal Approach to the Study of Inequality in Life Chances: The Case of Latin America"
Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

The present study represents precisely an attempt to analyze inequality in life chances from an ordinal point if view.

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"Growth and Equity in the Dominican Republic: The Role of the Market and the State in an Economy with Unequal Growing Prosperity"
Omar S. Arias and Rolando M. Guzmán

The Dominican Republic has experienced one of the strongest growth performances of the last two decades in the LAC region. However, poverty and inequality have not declined, and the growing prosperity has been shared unevenly among the population. Income inequality remained unchanged over the last 7 years at the average for the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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