TY - BOOK AU - Klasen,Stephan AU - Nowak-Lehmann,Felicitas AU - Nowak-Lehmann D,Felicitas ED - Universität Göttingen. ED - CESifo. TI - Poverty, inequality and policy in Latin America T2 - CESifo seminar series SN - 9780262113243 AV - HC130.P6 P715 2009 U1 - 339.46098 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Poverty KW - Latin America KW - Congresses KW - Equality KW - Economic policy KW - Social conditions N1 - 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.] ER -