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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CESifo seminar series.
- CESifo seminar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Latin America--Congresses.
- Poverty.
- Equality--Latin America--Congresses.
- Equality.
- Latin America--Economic policy--Congresses.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Foreword; Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America; I The Transmission of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America; 1 The Colonial Origins of Inequality; 2 Earnings Inequality and Educational Mobility in Brazil over Two Decades; 3 Race Discrimination or Inequality of Opportunities; II Spatial Dimensions of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America; 4 Consumption Growth and Spatial Poverty Traps; 5 Spatial Externalities between Brazilian Municipios and Their Neighbors; III Economic Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
- 6 Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Devaluation in a Dollarized Economy7 Medium-Term Impacts of the Oportunidades Conditional Cash-Transfer Program on Rural Youth in Mexico; 8 The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Bene t System on Inequality and Poverty; Appendix; Contributors List; Index
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in Gottingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612240683
- 9780262309158
- 0262309157
- 9780262255400
- 0262255405
- 9781282240681
- 1282240684
- OCLC:
- 310913512
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612240683
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