In the last decades, the Latin American middle class is growing in size while becoming more heterogeneous. Sustained economic growth explains its increasing siz

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they e

Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and mone

As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuri

After decades of stagnation, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently grew by 50percent-from approximately 100 million people in