A Large-Scale Mapping of Territorial Development Dynamics in Latin America
This paper summarizes a study of changes in per-capita income, monetary poverty, and income distribution in 9,045 subnational administrative units of nine Latin American countries between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s. The results largely support spatial convergence of mean household incomes, although the estimates indicate it has been slow. Territorial inequality is found to be persistent and reduces the pro-poor effect of local income growth. Although national-context specific, the estimates also indicate that territorial development dynamics are influenced by the structural features of the territories. In view of the evidence, territorial development policies in Latin America seem well warranted.
Title of publication: World Development
Volumen: 73
N.0: Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Sub-National Development: Learning from Latin America’s Territories
Intervalo de páginas: 11-31
Autor: Modrego, Felix
Otros autores: Berdegué, Julio
Organización: Rimisp-Latin American Center for Rural Development
Otras organizaciones: IDEAR-Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
Año: 2015
País(es): Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru
Cobertura geográfica: América Latina y el Caribe
Tipo: Artículo de revista especializada
Texto completo disponible en: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X14004136
Idioma utilizado para los contenidos: English