This report therefore examines recent trends in some indicators of dissatisfaction with institutions, such as perceptions of unfair distribution and distrust of political and State institutions. It also explores the relationship between these patterns and the behaviour of objective indicators of inequality, public social spending and economic growth in the countries of the region. This was still the case in 2011: 79% of the region’s population felt that income distribution in the countiy in question was veiy unfair or unfair (see figure II.