Economic development and fluctuations in
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Valpy FitzGerald
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Latin America has the most unequal income distribution of any region in the world, yet its historical causes are poorly understood. This paper reports the first exploratory attempt to compute income distributions for the five leading Latin American economies for the whole 20th century.