Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
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| Titolo: |
Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.4/6098 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poverty - Latin America |
| Equality - Latin America | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Economic policy Congresses |
| Latin America Social conditions Congresses | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
KlasenStephan
Nowak-Lehmann DFelicitas
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America |
| ISBN: | 0-262-30915-7 |
| 0-262-25540-5 | |
| 9786612240683 | |
| 1-282-24068-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454303303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
CESifo seminar series.