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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CESifo seminar seriesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255400
  • 0262255405
  • 0262113244
  • 9780262113243
  • 1282240684
  • 9781282240681
  • 9786612240683
  • 6612240687
  • 0262309157
  • 9780262309158
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America.DDC classification:
  • 339.4/6098 22
LOC classification:
  • HC130.P6 P715 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 71.12
  • 83.14
Online resources:
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 [and others].
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Summary: Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 [and others].

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Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.

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