Income inequality is considered one of the major concerns to a lot of governments worldwide. The current paper is examining the impact of the foreign direct investment inflows, elderly population, unemployment rate, expenditures on education and trade openness on Income inequality in (11) Latin American economies. The paper used a balanced panel data approach covering the period from 2000 to 2019. The main hypothesis of the paper that trade openness and the unemployment rate have a positive impact on Gini Coefficient; while the foreign direct investment and expenditure on education have a negative effect on Gini Coefficient. The paper found a significant negative impact of expenditure on education and elderly population on Gini coefficient; where a positive significant impact was found between trade openness and unemployment rates on Gini coefficient. The paper also found no significant impact between FDI and Gini Coefficient.

This paper investigates the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the Trade Openness on the environment quality in Brazil for the period from 1990 to 2020.

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