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Poverty, Social Inequality and Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America

by Dr. Karl-Dieter Hoffmann
One of the many things that the countries of Latin America have in common is their extreme social inequality. Nowhere else in the world is there more income inequality than in Latin America; nowhere else do the richest 10 per cent of the populous earn a greater proportion of total income; and nowhere else do the poorest 10 per cent earn a smaller share of the total aggregate income.

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