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Latin America and the Caribbean is the world’s most inequality-rife region and it is precisely this problem that poses the greatest hurdle to combating poverty, championing human development and broadening people’s freedoms and options.
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How can be smash through the vicious circle of inequality plaguing the region? What public policies can we design to prevent inequality from being transmitted from one generation to the next? This first Regional Human Development for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010 provides responses to these pressing questions and urges us to act today with a view to shaping our future.

  • The diagnostic: In Latin America and the Caribbean, inequality is high, it is persistent and it propagates in a context of low socioeconomic mobility.
  • The causes: There are mechanisms at both household-level and within the political system that serve to exacerbate the problem of inequality.
  • The recommendation: To formulate and roll out public policies with Reach (they must be able to reach people), Range (they must encompass the whole host of constraints that perpetuate poverty and inequality) and Reason (beneficiaries must be and act as agents of their own development).
  • The message: It is possible to break free from the intergenerational transmission of inequality in the region.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) firmly believes that equality matters when it comes to ensuring effective freedoms and broadening the paths in life effectively open to people, thus allowing all of us to choose with autonomy.
 
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This report was commissioned under the auspices of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, or AECID) as part of the initiative entitled “Broadening the Role of Human Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Ampliando el espacio de políticas para el Desarrollo Humano en América Latina y el Caribe). © All rights reserved. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2010.
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