Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality: The Case of Peru

by R. Thorp, M. Paredes

Overview

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230280007
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/20/2010
Series:	Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

CARLOS CONTRERAS is Professor of Economics of the Catholic University of Lima, Peru ADOLFO FIGUEROA is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Senior Researcher at Centrum Business School, Catholic University of Peru DAVID SULMONT is Associate Professor at the Social Science Department of the Catholic University of Peru, and Director of Studies of the Master's Degree in Sociology

Table of Contents

List of Tables viii

List of Figures, Map and Box x

Preface xi

List of Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 The Complexity and Salience of Ethnic Identity in Peru 15

3 Measuring Group Inequalities 45

4 Persistent Inequalities in Education 70

5 The Historical Embedding of Group Inequalities: From the Colony to the War with Chile 89

6 The Embedding of Regional Inequality and the Consequences for Group Inequalities: The 1890s to the 1960s 108

7 The Evolving Crisis and Consequences for Group Inequality 1968-90 136

8 The Fujimori Years: The Remaking of Political and Economic Exclusion 170

9 Conclusion 204

Bibliography 217

Index 230