Latin American countries have succeeded in reducing poverty and income inequality over the last decade thanks in part to both economic growth and deliberate social policy measures. This study provides an overview of the ...

Latin America faces common development and health problems and equity and overcoming poverty are crucial in the search for comprehensive and high impact solutions. The article analyzes the definition of social capital, its ...

This chapter systematizes the main elements of a psychopolitical approach to social inequality in Latin America. It presents two analytical axes prioritized in Latin American political psychology. The first axis encompasses ...

The chapter focus on urban space and the (re)production of social inequalities in Latin American cities. Following the evolution of income distribution and the development of patterns of urbanization in the last three ...

Social inequality is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For Latin America —the world’s most unequal region— social inequality also represents a structural feature and therefore a fundamental ...

Chile is one of the few Latin American countries that has participated in the inequality module of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) in 1999 and in 2009, allowing time comparisons in attitudes towards inequality ...