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



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Titolo: Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
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 non controllato: ECONOMICS/Political Economy
ECONOMICS/International Economics
Classificazione: 83.14
71.12
Altri autori: KlasenStephan  
Nowak-Lehmann DFelicitas  
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910782856803321
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Serie: CESifo seminar series.