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Latin America: inequality and political instability have lessons for the rest of the world
In a landmark speech about social mobility in 2013, the then US president, Barack Obama, warned against the problem of growing inequality in the starkest possible terms:
He was talking primarily about America, where the income share of the top 1% almost doubled between 1980 and 2015.
- Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
- The Conversation
But he could have been equally talking about Poland, the UK or a …