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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454303303321

Titolo

Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

0-262-30915-7

0-262-25540-5

9786612240683

1-282-24068-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Altri autori (Persone)

KlasenStephan

Nowak-Lehmann DFelicitas

Disciplina

339.4/6098

Soggetti

Poverty - Latin America

Equality - Latin America

Electronic books.

Latin America Economic policy Congresses

Latin America Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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