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Concrete jungles : urban pollution and the politics of difference in the Caribbean
| Concrete jungles : urban pollution and the politics of difference in the Caribbean |
| Autore | Jaffe Rivke |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 363.7309729 |
| Collana | Global and comparative ethnography Concrete jungles |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban pollution - Caribbean Area
Environmental sociology - Caribbean Area Social classes - Caribbean Area Equality - Caribbean Area Urban ecology (Sociology) - Caribbean Area Human ecology - Caribbean Area Environmental Sciences Earth & Environmental Sciences |
| ISBN | 0-19-027362-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154286503321 |
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| New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inequality in Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [et al.]
| Inequality in Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : The World Bank, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | xii, 380 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 305/.09729 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | De FerrantiDavid M |
| Collana | World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies. Viewpoints |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-08520-7
9786610085200 1-4175-2351-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455613103321 |
| Washington, DC, : The World Bank, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inequality in Latin America : : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [and others]
| Inequality in Latin America : : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , [2004] |
| Descrizione fisica | xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm |
| Disciplina | 305/.09729 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | De FerrantiDavid M |
| Collana | World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies. |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area |
| ISBN |
1-280-08520-7
9786610085200 1-4175-2351-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780306403321 |
| Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , [2004] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inequality in Latin America : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [et al.]
| Inequality in Latin America : breaking with history? / / David de Ferranti ... [et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : The World Bank, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm |
| Disciplina | 305/.09729 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | De FerrantiDavid M |
| Collana | World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies. Viewpoints |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area |
| ISBN |
1-280-08520-7
9786610085200 1-4175-2351-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Summary -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Motivation and Conceptual Framework -- 1.1 A conceptual framework -- 1.2 The consequences of high inequality -- Part I: The Nature of Inequality in Latin America -- Chapter 2: Different Lives: Inequality in Latin America -- 2.1 Some conceptual issues -- 2.2 Income inequality and beyond -- 2.3 Measurement-related issues and data limitations -- 2.4 Inequality in Latin America in perspective -- 2.5 Looking inside household income -- 2.6 Inequality beyond income -- 2.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Group-Based Inequalities: The Roles of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender -- 3.1 Who are the people of Latin America? -- 3.2 Inequality among individuals during the lifecycle -- 3.3 Would income inequality decline if returns to human capital were more equal? -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Part II: The Determinants of Inequality in Latin America -- Chapter 4: Historical Roots of Inequality in Latin America -- 4.1 Factor endowments, inequality, and institutions -- 4.2 The persistence of inequality: The colonial period -- 4.3 The persistence of inequality: Post-independence -- 4.4 The 20th century -- 4.5 The 21st century and beyond -- Chapter 5: State-Society Interactions as Sources of Persistence and Change in Inequality -- 5.1 Political and social structures as forces for the reproduction of inequality -- 5.2 The potential for equalizing political and social change -- 5.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Economic Mechanisms for the Persistence of High Inequality in Latin America -- 6.1 Asset distributions: Education and land -- 6.2 Job match quality -- 6.3 Remuneration in the labor markets -- 6.4 Household formation -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Part III: Policies for Lower Inequality -- Chapter 7: Policies on Assets and Services -- 7.1 Education -- 7.2 Property rights, land, and housing.
7.3 Infrastructure services and the distributional impact of privatization -- 7.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 8: Policies on Markets and Institutions -- 8.1 Markets and inequality -- 8.2 Labor market policies and inequality -- 8.3 Inequality and macroeconomic crises -- 8.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 9: Taxation, Public Expenditures, and Transfers -- 9.1 Taxes and distribution -- 9.2 Public social spending and distribution -- 9.3 Cash transfers and distribution -- 9.4 Conclusions -- Statistical Appendix -- Bibliography -- Boxes -- Chapter 1 -- 1.1 Measuring inequality of opportunities in Brazil -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1 Social class -- 2.2 Mobility in Latin America: What little is known? -- 2.3 Some simple decompositions -- 2.4 Social capital and trust -- 2.5 Disability and distribution -- Chapter 3 -- 3.1 Distribution of the population of the Americas: An historical evolution -- 3.2 Todos Contamos: National census and social inclusion -- 3.3 The challenge of racial, ethnic, and gender identification and measurement -- 3.4 What if we do hold "all else constant?" -- 3.5 Women's other job: Housework -- 3.6 Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methodology -- 3.7 Econometric methodology -- Chapter 5 -- 5.1 Racial inequality and social spending: Evidence from the United States and Europe -- 5.2 Clientelism and the underprovision of public services in the Dominican Republic -- 5.3 Are there political and social reasons for the contrast between Latin America and East Asia? -- 5.4 Political agency and the potential for redistributive strategy in rich countries: Lessons from the OECD -- 5.5 Increased equity through taxation and social spending in a democratic Chile -- 5.6 Failed redistributive efforts in a fragmented democracy: Social security reforms in Brazil -- 5.7 Neopopulism and policies on social funds in Peru. 5.8 Transition at the sectoral level? Mexico's targeted antipoverty programs -- 5.9 Popular budgeting in Porto Alegre: Explaining a transition to a new political equilibrium -- 5.10 Local contexts and the transition from clientelism: Ibagué versus Pasto -- Chapter 6 -- 6.1 Schematic representation of household income determination -- Chapter 7 -- 7.1 Business elites and the fear of education: Is there a low-road trap? Evidence from northeastern Brazil and the southern U -- 7.2 Bilingual education: Preserving cultural heritage without being left behind -- 7.3 The poverty reduction potential of land in rural Mexico -- Chapter 8 -- 8.1 Alternative views on the potential impact of market-oriented reforms and inequality -- 8.2 The evolution of small-scale firms in the "Third Italy" -- 8.3 Unions, firms, and the expansion of high-value export crops in Petrolina-Juazeiro in northeastern Brazil -- 8.4 Institutions, macroeconomic policy, and volatility -- Chapter 9 -- 9.1 Do tax incidence numbers mean much? -- 9.2 Issues in the valuation of public services -- 9.3 Summarizing benefit incidence using Gini income elasticities (GIE) -- Figures -- Summary -- 1. Difference in average years of education between top and bottom quintiles for people 31-40 and 51-60, in 2000 -- 2. Trends in income inequality in Latin America between the early 1990s and early 2000s -- 3. The elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to growth for different levels of inequality -- 4. Wages of various groups in relation to the wages of white males -- 5. Marital sorting and income inequality -- 6. Distribution of mathematics and reading test scores for 15-year-olds in Brazil, Mexico, and OECD countries -- 7. Tax revenue in relation to GDP per capita -- 8. Average and marginal incidence of access to various health services. 9. Targeting to the poor and reach among the poor for different types of programs in Brazil -- Chapter 1 -- (Box 1.1) Inequality of opportunities as a share of total inequality, 1996 -- 1.1 A simple conceptual framework -- 1.2 Perceptions of fairness regarding the income distribution in Latin America -- 1.3 Inequality and poverty with a constant mean -- 1.4 Growth elasticities become less negative with inequality -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1 Income shares by deciles (household per capita income) -- 2.2 Household per capita income distribution, excluding the richest 1 percent, Mexico, 2000 -- 2.3 Equivalized household income -- 2.4 Indices of aggregate welfare for Argentina under alternative assumptions of a society's aversion to inequality -- 2.5 Brazil's consumption inequality in international perspective -- 2.6 Distribution of household per capita income, per region, 1990s -- 2.7 Difference in average years of education between top and bottom quintiles, per country -- 2.8 Hourly wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers, men aged 25 to 55 -- 2.9 Hourly wage gap between semi-skilled and unskilled workers, men aged 25 to 55 -- 2.10 Increase in hourly wages for college-educated workers, men aged 25 to 55 -- 2.11 Labor market outcomes by gender -- 2.12 Ratio of number of children under age 12 years of age per household between bottom and top quintiles -- 2.13 School enrollment rates by age and country -- 2.14 Gaps in access to services, by country -- Chapter 3 -- (Box 3.1) The changing ethnic composition of the Americas -- 3.1 Completed primary education or less, by race, ethnicity, and gender -- 3.2 Proportion of workers in service or managerial occupations, by group and country -- 3.3 Wage gaps by race/ethnicity and gender -- 3.4 Urban gender wage gap-ratio of women's hourly wages to men's hourly wages. (Box 3.7) a. Nonindigenous male vs. American Indian male (simulating earnings regression coefficients) -- (Box 3.7) b. Nonindigenous male vs. American Indian male (simulating only education) -- (Box 3.7) c. Nonindigenous male vs. American Indian male (simulating both a and b) -- 3.5 Actual and simulated earnings distributions for white and indigenous men in Bolivia -- 3.6 Actual and simulated earnings distributions for Indo-Guyanese men and women -- Chapter 5 -- 5.1 The syndrome of weak and unequal states: correlations between the rule of law and development outcomes -- 5.2 Political financing and its impact, by type -- 5.3 Impact of bribes in shaping policy, according to a survey of firms by a recipient group, Peru, 2001 -- 5.4 The rise and fall of the labor share in Argentina -- Chapter 6 -- 6.1 Income and education inequalities across countries -- 6.2 Lorenz curves of years of schooling, selected countries -- 6.3 Difference in mean incomes per hundredth of the mean-normalized distribution: U.S.-Brazil and U.S.-Brazil (with U.S. conditional distribution of education) -- 6.4 Income and land inequalities across countries -- 6.5 Labor force participation and inequality across countries -- 6.6 Unemployment and inequality across countries -- 6.7 Informality and inequality across countries -- 6.8 Returns on schooling and inequality across countries -- 6.9 Distribution of and returns on education explain some of the differences between income distributions -- 6.10 Marital sorting and inequality across countries -- 6.11 Youth dependency and inequality across countries -- 6.12 Old-age dependency and inequality across countries -- 6.13 The role of reproductive behavior in accounting for differences in income distribution between Brazil and the United States -- 6.14 Total public spending and income inequality. 6.15 Public expenditure on primary education and income inequality. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827746403321 |
| Washington, DC, : The World Bank, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed
| The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed |
| Autore | Gibbons Arnold |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.97292 |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Caribbean Area
Equality - Guyana Political activists - Guyana |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-59989-9
9786613912343 0-7618-5414-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I: Identity and Ideology; Chapter II: Education and Historical Consciousness; Chapter III: Politics in the Diaspora Race in Post-slavery Societies; Chapter IV: Slavery and Black Power; Chapter V: Intellectualism and its Demands; Chapter VI: The Approach to Armageddon; Chapter VII: Assassination of Walter Rodney; Chapter VIII: Garvey and Rodney; Chapter IX: C. L. R. James, Rodney and the Taking of Power; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462515703321 |
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Gibbons Arnold
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| Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed
| The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed |
| Autore | Gibbons Arnold |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.97292 |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Caribbean Area
Equality - Guyana Political activists - Guyana |
| ISBN |
1-283-59989-9
9786613912343 0-7618-5414-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I: Identity and Ideology; Chapter II: Education and Historical Consciousness; Chapter III: Politics in the Diaspora Race in Post-slavery Societies; Chapter IV: Slavery and Black Power; Chapter V: Intellectualism and its Demands; Chapter VI: The Approach to Armageddon; Chapter VII: Assassination of Walter Rodney; Chapter VIII: Garvey and Rodney; Chapter IX: C. L. R. James, Rodney and the Taking of Power; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785771803321 |
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Gibbons Arnold
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| Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean / / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed
| The legacy of Walter Rodney in Guyana and the Caribbean / / Arnold Gibbons ; with an introduction by Wazir Mohamed |
| Autore | Gibbons Arnold |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.97292 |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Caribbean Area
Equality - Guyana Political activists - Guyana |
| ISBN |
1-283-59989-9
9786613912343 0-7618-5414-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I: Identity and Ideology; Chapter II: Education and Historical Consciousness; Chapter III: Politics in the Diaspora Race in Post-slavery Societies; Chapter IV: Slavery and Black Power; Chapter V: Intellectualism and its Demands; Chapter VI: The Approach to Armageddon; Chapter VII: Assassination of Walter Rodney; Chapter VIII: Garvey and Rodney; Chapter IX: C. L. R. James, Rodney and the Taking of Power; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823066203321 |
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Gibbons Arnold
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| Lanham, : University Press of America, c2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Ricard Paes de Barros, et al
| Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean [[electronic resource] /] / Ricard Paes de Barros, et al |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington DC, : World Bank |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina |
305.098
330.98 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BarrosRicardo Paes de <1954-> |
| Collana | Latin American development forum series |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area Children - Government policy - Latin America Children - Government policy - Caribbean Area |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786611959746
1-281-95974-X 0-8213-7746-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; OVERVIEW; Figure 1 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 2 Measuring Inequality of Opportunity; Figure 3 Human Opportunity Indexes for Selected Educational and Housing Indicators; Table 1 Summary Human Opportunity Index (HOI), circa 2005; Figure 4 Changes in Human Opportunity Indexes in Education and Housing Conditions, 1995-2005; Figure 5 Human Opportunity Index and Coverage Rate: Chile, 2006; Figure 6 Human Opportunity Index: Completion of Sixth Grade on Time in Brazil by State, 2005
Table 2 Income and OpportunitiesTable 3 Share of Inequality of Economic Opportunity; Table 4 What Circumstances Characterize the Most Economically Disadvantaged Groups?; Table 5 What Characterizes Students in the Bottom 10 Percent of Reading Performance Distribution?; 1 INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT CAN BE MEASURED, AND WHY IT MATTERS; Figure 1.1 Simulated Probability of Completing Sixth Grade on Time, circa 2005; Figure 1.2 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 1.3 Should We Have More or Less Inequality? Responses from the World Values Survey Figure 1.4 Outcome Inequality DecompositionBox 1.1 Meritocracy and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.2 Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.3 Latin American Contributions to the Equality Opportunities Literature; Box 1.4 Social Preference and the "Ultimatum Game"; Box 1.5 Beyond Measurement: The Perspective of Rights; 2 A HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX FOR CHILDREN; Table 2.1 Countries, Surveys, and Years; Table 2.2 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Education; Table 2.3 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Housing Conditions Figure 2.1 The D-Index: An Index to Measure Inequality of OpportunityBox 2.1 Computing the D-Index Empirically; Table 2.4 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Education; Table 2.5 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Housing Conditions; Table 2.6 Human Opportunity Indexes in Education; Table 2.7 Human Opportunity Indexes in Housing Conditions; Table 2.8 Summary Opportunity Indexes for Education and Housing Conditions; Table 2.9 Human Opportunity Index; Figure 2.2 Changes in the Human Opportunity Index, circa 1995-2005; 3 USES AND POLICY APPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX Table 3.1 D-Index for Completing Sixth Grade on Time, by Circumstance, circa 2005Table 3.2 D-Index for Probability of Access to Sanitation, by Circumstance, circa 2005; Table 3.3 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Educational Opportunity; Table 3.4 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Sixth Grade Completion on Time: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country; Box 3.1 Preliminary Evidence from Haiti; Table 3.5 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Opportunity for Housing Conditions Table 3.6 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Access to Sanitation: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454313703321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Ricard Paes de Barros, et al
| Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Ricard Paes de Barros, et al |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington DC, : World Bank |
| Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 195 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina | 330.98 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BarrosRicardo Paes de <1954-> |
| Collana | Latin American development forum series |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area Children - Government policy - Latin America Children - Government policy - Caribbean Area |
| ISBN |
9786611959746
1-281-95974-X 0-8213-7746-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; OVERVIEW; Figure 1 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 2 Measuring Inequality of Opportunity; Figure 3 Human Opportunity Indexes for Selected Educational and Housing Indicators; Table 1 Summary Human Opportunity Index (HOI), circa 2005; Figure 4 Changes in Human Opportunity Indexes in Education and Housing Conditions, 1995-2005; Figure 5 Human Opportunity Index and Coverage Rate: Chile, 2006; Figure 6 Human Opportunity Index: Completion of Sixth Grade on Time in Brazil by State, 2005
Table 2 Income and Opportunities Table 3 Share of Inequality of Economic Opportunity; Table 4 What Circumstances Characterize the Most Economically Disadvantaged Groups?; Table 5 What Characterizes Students in the Bottom 10 Percent of Reading Performance Distribution?; 1 INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT CAN BE MEASURED, AND WHY IT MATTERS; Figure 1.1 Simulated Probability of Completing Sixth Grade on Time, circa 2005; Figure 1.2 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 1.3 Should We Have More or Less Inequality? Responses from the World Values Survey Figure 1.4 Outcome Inequality Decomposition Box 1.1 Meritocracy and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.2 Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.3 Latin American Contributions to the Equality Opportunities Literature; Box 1.4 Social Preference and the "Ultimatum Game"; Box 1.5 Beyond Measurement: The Perspective of Rights; 2 A HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX FOR CHILDREN; Table 2.1 Countries, Surveys, and Years; Table 2.2 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Education; Table 2.3 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Housing Conditions Figure 2.1 The D-Index: An Index to Measure Inequality of Opportunity Box 2.1 Computing the D-Index Empirically; Table 2.4 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Education; Table 2.5 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Housing Conditions; Table 2.6 Human Opportunity Indexes in Education; Table 2.7 Human Opportunity Indexes in Housing Conditions; Table 2.8 Summary Opportunity Indexes for Education and Housing Conditions; Table 2.9 Human Opportunity Index; Figure 2.2 Changes in the Human Opportunity Index, circa 1995-2005; 3 USES AND POLICY APPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX Table 3.1 D-Index for Completing Sixth Grade on Time, by Circumstance, circa 2005Table 3.2 D-Index for Probability of Access to Sanitation, by Circumstance, circa 2005; Table 3.3 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Educational Opportunity; Table 3.4 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Sixth Grade Completion on Time: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country; Box 3.1 Preliminary Evidence from Haiti; Table 3.5 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Opportunity for Housing Conditions Table 3.6 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Access to Sanitation: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807642603321 |
| Washington DC, : World Bank | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Ricardo Paes de Barros ... [and others]
| Measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean / / Ricardo Paes de Barros ... [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington DC : , : World Bank |
| Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 195 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina | 330.98 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BarrosRicardo Paes de <1954-> |
| Collana | Latin American development forum series |
| Soggetto topico |
Equality - Latin America
Equality - Caribbean Area Children - Government policy - Latin America Children - Government policy - Caribbean Area |
| ISBN |
9786611959746
1-281-95974-X 0-8213-7746-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; OVERVIEW; Figure 1 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 2 Measuring Inequality of Opportunity; Figure 3 Human Opportunity Indexes for Selected Educational and Housing Indicators; Table 1 Summary Human Opportunity Index (HOI), circa 2005; Figure 4 Changes in Human Opportunity Indexes in Education and Housing Conditions, 1995-2005; Figure 5 Human Opportunity Index and Coverage Rate: Chile, 2006; Figure 6 Human Opportunity Index: Completion of Sixth Grade on Time in Brazil by State, 2005
Table 2 Income and Opportunities Table 3 Share of Inequality of Economic Opportunity; Table 4 What Circumstances Characterize the Most Economically Disadvantaged Groups?; Table 5 What Characterizes Students in the Bottom 10 Percent of Reading Performance Distribution?; 1 INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT CAN BE MEASURED, AND WHY IT MATTERS; Figure 1.1 Simulated Probability of Completing Sixth Grade on Time, circa 2005; Figure 1.2 Simulated Probability of Access to Electricity, circa 2005; Figure 1.3 Should We Have More or Less Inequality? Responses from the World Values Survey Figure 1.4 Outcome Inequality Decomposition Box 1.1 Meritocracy and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.2 Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity; Box 1.3 Latin American Contributions to the Equality Opportunities Literature; Box 1.4 Social Preference and the "Ultimatum Game"; Box 1.5 Beyond Measurement: The Perspective of Rights; 2 A HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX FOR CHILDREN; Table 2.1 Countries, Surveys, and Years; Table 2.2 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Education; Table 2.3 Coverage of Basic Opportunities in Housing Conditions Figure 2.1 The D-Index: An Index to Measure Inequality of Opportunity Box 2.1 Computing the D-Index Empirically; Table 2.4 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Education; Table 2.5 Inequality of Opportunities (D-Index) in Housing Conditions; Table 2.6 Human Opportunity Indexes in Education; Table 2.7 Human Opportunity Indexes in Housing Conditions; Table 2.8 Summary Opportunity Indexes for Education and Housing Conditions; Table 2.9 Human Opportunity Index; Figure 2.2 Changes in the Human Opportunity Index, circa 1995-2005; 3 USES AND POLICY APPLICATIONS OF THE HUMAN OPPORTUNITY INDEX Table 3.1 D-Index for Completing Sixth Grade on Time, by Circumstance, circa 2005Table 3.2 D-Index for Probability of Access to Sanitation, by Circumstance, circa 2005; Table 3.3 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Educational Opportunity; Table 3.4 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Sixth Grade Completion on Time: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country; Box 3.1 Preliminary Evidence from Haiti; Table 3.5 Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables in Inequality of Opportunity for Housing Conditions Table 3.6 Profile of Inequality of Opportunity for Access to Sanitation: Relative Importance of Six Circumstance Variables by Country |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782864103321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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