SUPPORTING STRUCTURAL REFORM EFFORTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN After two years of negative growth, the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)
A doctor speaks on his cell phone as he walks past graffiti on a wall along a street in Mexico City, January 15, 2013. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido Several of Latin America’s key economies are sputtering.
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
The gap between America’s upper-income and middle-income families has reached its highest level on record. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s
Inequality in America The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them The rich are the big gainers in America’s new prosperity Jun 15th 2006 | washington, dc
In Latin America household debt levels have been rising in recent years. This has been driven in part by the growth in consumer lending that has coincided with rising incomes of many low-income households in countries such as …
LAVCA, a non-profit member organization, supports private equity & venture capital in Latin America through education, networking, research & advocacy.
The Latin America and the Caribbean region comprises 41 countries that range from small island nations to large economies such as Brazil and Mexico, with a wide diversity in income levels and financial sector development.
Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.
Income Gini coefficient . Measure of the deviation of the distribution of income among individuals or households within a country from a perfectly equal distribution.
