ABSTRACT
As a region, Latin America is more developed than most Third World nations and not surprisingly has somewhat more income distribution data available than other Third World regions. The thrust of the demonstrations proposed are ones heavily grounded in historical detail and therefore highlight all the more the problem of the lack of longitudinal income distribution data. Problems of data availability need not cause the abandonment of future studies of the internal gap. Rather, a series of microanalytical studies would seem like a promising alternative. Such investigations would focus on that “black box” of dependency/world-system analysis, so that eventually it would be possible to trace the ways in which inequality is stimulated in developing countries. Even without tariff barriers, the Third World faces a growing gap in technology which is serving to reinforce the income gap.
