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UNINA9910808384603321 |
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Titolo |
Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-30915-7 |
0-262-25540-5 |
9786612240683 |
1-282-24068-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classificazione |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KlasenStephan |
Nowak-Lehmann DFelicitas |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poverty - Latin America |
Equality - Latin America |
Latin America Economic policy Congresses |
Latin America Social conditions Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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