Latin America's Emerging Middle Classes

Preface 1. Making Sense of Latin America's Middle Class; J. Dayton-Johnson 2. Inequality, Mobility and Middle Classes in Latin America; J. Azevedo, L.F. López -Calva, N. Lustig, E. Ortiz-Juárez 3. Latin America's Global Middle Class: A Preference for Growth Over Equality; M. Cárdenas, H. Kharas and C. Henao 4. Brazil's New Middle Classes: The Bright Side of the Poor; M. Neri 5. Who is the Latin American Middle Class? Relative-Income and Multidimensional Approaches; F. Castellani, G. Parent, and J. Zenteno Gonzales 6. Covering the Uncovered: Labor Informality, Pensions and the Emerging Middle Class in Latin America; C. Daude, J.R. de Laiglesia, Á. Melguizo 7. Business Sector Responses to the Rise of the Middle Class; L. Casanova and H. Renck 8. Feeling Middle Class and Being Middle Class; What Do Subjective Perceptions Tell Us?; E. Lora and J. Fajardo González 9. Political Attitudes of the Middle Class; The Case of Fiscal Policy, C. Daude, H. Gutiérrez, Á. Melguizo