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Country Authors


ARGENTINA

Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States. Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue

Carola Pessino (main contact person)

Senior Researcher, Department of Economics, CEMA, Argentina and Consultant, IDB

BOLIVIA

George Gray Molina
Chief Economist, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme, United States

Wilson Jiménez Pozo
Senior Researcher at Fundación Aru, La Paz, Bolivia.



Verónica Paz (main contact person)
Senior Researcher at Instituto Alternativo, La Paz, Bolivia. 



Ernesto Yañez
Senior researcher at Instituto Alternativo, La Paz, Bolivia.

BRAZIL

Sean Higgins
Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States

Claudiney Pereira (main contact person)
Professor of Practice, Department of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States

CHILE

Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
Economist at UNDP, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, New York. Non-resident associate research fellow at Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University, New Orleans.

Sandra Martínez Aguilar (main contact person)
Consultant at The World Bank

COLOMBIA

TOP INCOMES PROJECT:

Facundo Alvaredo (main contact person)
Affiliate Member, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France 



Juliana Londoño
PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley



CEQ Colombia:

Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States. Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue

Marcela Meléndez (main contact person)
Director of Econ Estudio, Bogotá, Colombia 


COSTA RICA

Pablo Sauma (main contact person)
Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas (IICE), University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

Juan Diego Trejos
Professor and Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas (IICE), University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

EL SALVADOR

Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliu (main contact person)
FUSADES, San Salvador, El Salvador



José Andrés Oliva
FUSADES, San Salvador, El Salvador

GUATEMALA

Maynor Cabrera
Advisor, Administración Tributaria de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States. Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue


Hilcías Estuardo Morán (main contact person)
Professor, Department of Economics, Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala City, Guatemala

MEXICO

Luis F. López-Calva,
Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction and Gender Group, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank



Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States. Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue



John Scott (main contact person)
Professor-Research in the Department of Economics at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económic (CIDE) and CONEVAL, Mexico City, Mexico

PARAGUAY

Jose Manuel Gomez
Researcher, CADEP (Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya), Asunción, Paraguay



PERU

Miguel Jaramillo (main contact person)
Senior Researcher at GRADE (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo), Lima, Peru

URUGUAY

Marisa Bucheli (main contact person)
Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay



Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University, and Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue

Máximo Rossi
Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay