Equity in Latin America Since the 1990s
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Pedro Sáinz is a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (INE) Chile and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografi a e Statistica (IBGE) on public information systems as well as on poverty analysis and policies. He was Director of the Economic Projections Centre and of the Statistical Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago (ECLAC). Since his retirement in 2000, he has written articles on Latin American social development and given advice to Latin American institutions on public information systems.
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