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Inequality

Panama: What is behind the protests and what is at stake?

The country is currently experiencing a cycle of public dissatisfaction and institutional questioning that goes beyond the current situation, forcing us to look a little further back.

Health as a mirror of injustice: Social inequality kills

Life expectancy no longer depends on genes or luck. It depends on your zip code, your ethnicity, your income, your education, whether you live...

Between light and shadow: The slow march toward gender equality in the region

We must develop more robust legal frameworks, budget allocations with a gender perspective and public policies that truly aim to transform the structural conditions of inequality.

What does Milei’s government understand by inequality and private sector?

To bias and blur the contribution that the government's adjustment makes to the concentrated private sector and to omit the socioeconomic crisis that the country is going through is a political act, and a hypocritical policy.

How do Peruvians experience inequality?

Despite the dramatic poverty that characterizes the country, there seems to be no sign of rebellion. On the contrary, it is among the poorest that hope is placed in their own efforts and, to a certain extent, in the support of the state.

Invisible and indispensable: pink-collar workers in Latin America 

They are also called the “pink ghetto” as a way of describing the limits women have in advancing their careers, as these jobs are often dead ends.