La desigualdad de la distribución de la renta en América Latina: situación, evolución y factores explicativos

Zusammenfassung

This article analyzes the level of inequality in the rent distribution in Latin America at the beginning of the 21st century, as well as its evolution through the last decades, from a comparative intra-continental perspective (analyzing the different Latin American countries), and also comparing the region with others. In second place it studies the behavior of inequality through the last decades. In third place, it revises the factors behind that inequality, since those factors make Latin America the most unequal region in the world, paying special attention to the colonization model and to the unequal access to land ownership, as well as to the unequal access to education, to the poor redistributing role of the public sector and to demographic factors. Lastly, it describes the potentially negative effects produced by this state of things.