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Title Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrations
Series CESifo seminar series
CESifo seminar series.
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]
Summary Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data
Analysis ECONOMICS/Political Economy
ECONOMICS/International Economics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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
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SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses
Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses
15.85 history of America.
83.14 income, income distribution.
71.12 social stratification, social mobility.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Desigualdad social -- América Latina
Economic policy
Equality
Poverty
Social conditions
Armut
Ungleichheit
Wirtschaftspolitik
Armoede.
Sociale ongelijkheid.
Overheidsbeleid.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses
Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Subject América Latina -- Política económica
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Latijns-Amerika.
Brazilië.
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Klasen, Stephan.
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.
Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
CESifo.
LC no. 2008029405
ISBN 9780262255400
0262255405
0262113244
9780262113243
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9781282240681
9786612240683
6612240687
0262309157
9780262309158