Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

By Alexander Lee. 2013

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Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015, background): “In developing countries, where farming and self-employment are more prevalent and income support mechanisms more limited, macroeconomic instability caused by price shocks has less impact on open unemployment and more on earnings from work (World Bank 2013b).”
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2014, methodology): “2 In this paper we use an income-based identification of households first set out in Ferreira et al. (2012), a World Bank report on economic mobility and the middle class.”
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview (2013, unknown): “22 These two income categories have been called “middle-class” and “rich” in a recent report by World Bank (Ferreira et al., 2013).”