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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)? family structure?

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

TechCrunch

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. Last August, TechCrunch reported on the $104 million raise of Brazilian startup Kovi, which has a similar mission to Leasy.

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

TechCrunch

We discovered it cost about $30,000 to hire three different law firms to create the right structure so we can attract VC from the U.S.,” Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Panama, Argentina and Spain. . It started by documenting the process to create Latitud. “We Requarth said. “It It seems excessive, annoying and a waste of time.”.