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Poverty, inequality and policy in Latin America

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CESifo seminar seriesPublication details: Cambridge MIT Press 2009Description: vi,324p. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262113243
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.46098 22 PO-
LOC classification:
  • HC130.P6 P715 2009
Contents:
The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution / Ewout Frankema -- Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades / Denis Cogneau and Jérémie Gignoux -- Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case / Phillippe G. Leite -- Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps : an analysis of the effect of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru / Philippe De Vreyer, Javier Herrera, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps -- Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbors / Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel -- Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia / Rainer Schweikert, Rainer Thiele, and Manfred Wiebelt -- Medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades conditional cash-transfer program on rural youth in Mexico / Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, and Petra E. Todd -- The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty / Herwig Immervoll ... [et al.].
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Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in Göttingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution / Ewout Frankema -- Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades / Denis Cogneau and Jérémie Gignoux -- Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case / Phillippe G. Leite -- Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps : an analysis of the effect of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru / Philippe De Vreyer, Javier Herrera, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps -- Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbors / Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel -- Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia / Rainer Schweikert, Rainer Thiele, and Manfred Wiebelt -- Medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades conditional cash-transfer program on rural youth in Mexico / Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, and Petra E. Todd -- The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty / Herwig Immervoll ... [et al.].

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