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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I asked her what kind of insights could be gleaned by an anti-poverty group, say in Uruguay (to pick one country out of 50), accessing the LIS. She suggested: In Uruguay: What is the poverty rate among individuals and households (using any of a number of poverty lines – absolute or relative, national or regional)?

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Peruvian startup Leasy secures $17M in debt, equity to provide auto loans to LatAm ride-hailing drivers

TechCrunch

For many, it was the only way to be able to have access to the job market they wanted to pursue. The structure of the business is designed to make it uncomplicated for ride-hailing drivers to finance a car, with insurance included in the transaction and a “simple” payments process.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

Latitud aims to help entrepreneurs from a startup’s early stages — with company formation, accessing cross-border capital, cap table management and access to advice from “accomplished” operators and tech leaders. Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Panama, Argentina and Spain. . Requarth said. “We’ve