Despite meaningful progress in the first two decades of this century, Latin America and the Caribbean remains one of the world’s most unequal regions, with gaping disparities in income that most analysts agree puts it in the position of competing with sub-Saharan Africa—with its outliers like Namibia and South Africa—for the unenviable title of the world's most unequal region. … [Read more...] about How Inequality is Inherited in Latin America and the Caribbean
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Department of Social Policy at LSE. Francisco works on the measurement, causes, and consequences of inequality and poverty, with an emphasis on developing countries in general and Latin America in particular. His research has been published widely and awarded various prizes. He is also a past president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association; a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn); and an Affiliated Scholar with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York. He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.