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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. :World Bank,
    UID:
    almahu_9949190430702882
    Format: xxiv, 383 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
    ISBN: 0821368702 , 0821368710 (electronic) , 9780821368701 , 9780821368718 (electronic)
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum series
    Note: The development impact of remittances in Latin America / Pablo Fajnzylber and J. Humberto Lopez -- How important are remittances in Latin America? / Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber, and J. Humberto Lopez -- Migration and remittances in Latin America : patterns and determinants / Yoko Niimi and Caglar Ozden -- Do remittances lower poverty levels in Latin America? / Pablo Acosta ... [and others] -- Remittances and household behavior : evidence for Latin America / Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber, and J. Humberto Lopez -- Do remittances affect recipient countries' financial development? / Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Yira Mascaro, and Florencia Moizeszowicz -- Remittances, the real exchange rate, and the Dutch disease phenomenon / J. Humberto Lopez, Luis Molina, and Maurizio Bussolo -- Do conditional cash transfer programs crowd out private transfers? / Pedro Olinto and Mette E. Nielsen -- Facilitating remittances flows and security in the system / Massimo Cirasino, Mario Guadanillas, and Emanuel Salinas -- Remittances and growth : the role of complementary policies / Cesar Calderon, Pablo Fajnzylber and J. Humberto Lopez.
    Additional Edition: Print Version: ISBN 9780821368701
    Language: English
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040618852
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (36 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2) yet despite this general tendency, the estimated impacts tend to be modest; and (3) there is significant country heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that may lead to varying outcomes across countries are the percentage of households reporting remittances income, the share of remittances of recipient households belonging to the lowest quintiles of the income distribution, and the relative importance of remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is often restricted to specific groups of the population
    Note: Weitere Ausgabe: Lopez, J. Humberto: The Impact of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Lopez, J. Humberto The Impact of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital 2007
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040619108
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (41 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: Latin America is together with Sub-Saharan Africa the most unequal region of the world. This paper documents recent inequality trends in the Latin American region, going beyond traditional measures of income inequality. The paper also reviews some of the explanations that have been put forward to understand the current situation, and discusses why reducing income inequality should be an important policy priority. In particular, the authors discuss channels through which inequality can affect growth and output volatility. On the whole, the analysis suggests a two-pronged approach to reduce inequality in the region that combines policies aimed at improving the distribution of assets (especially education) with elements aimed at improving the capacity of the state to redistribute income through taxes and transfers
    Note: Weitere Ausgabe: Lopez, J. Humberto: Inequality In Latin America
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Lopez, J. Humberto Inequality In Latin America 2008
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 4
    UID:
    almahu_9949190427602882
    Format: xxi, 321 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
    ISBN: 0821374117 (softcover) , 0821374125 (electronic) , 082137687X (hardcover) , 9780821374115 (softcover) , 9780821374122 (electronic) , 9780821376874 (hardcover)
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum
    Additional Edition: Print Version: ISBN 9780821374115
    Language: English
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040617928
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Edition: Also available in print.
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3322
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 6/4/2004 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2004]
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Servén, Luis Tango with the gringo 2004
    Language: English
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  • 6
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040619091
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (31 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: Income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends on the redistributive capacity of the state. This paper documents the performance of Latin American fiscal systems from the perspective of income redistribution using newly-available information on the incidence of taxes and transfers across the region. The findings indicate that: (i) the differences in income inequality before taxes and transfers between Latin America and Western Europe are much more modest than those after taxes and transfers; (ii) the key reason is that, in contrast with industrial countries, in most Latin American countries the fiscal system is of little help in reducing income inequality; and (iii) in countries where fiscal redistribution is significant, it is achieved mostly through transfers rather than taxes. These facts stress the need for fiscal reforms across the region to further the goal of social equity. However, different countries need to place different relative emphasis on raising tax collection, restructuring the tax system, and improving the targeting of expenditures
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Goñi, Edwin Fiscal Redistribution And Income Inequality In Latin America 2008
    Language: English
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV040618420
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Edition: Also available in print.
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3815
    Content: "Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price index (CPI) inflation may provide a misleading measure of the inflation actually faced by poor households, more so the more unequal the distribution of aggregate consumption across households. Likewise, changes in observed nominal consumption inequality may be very different from those in true inequality, that is, that measured using household-specific CPIs. The authors explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate faced by a rich consumer located in the 80 to 90 percentile of the distribution of consumption expenditure. In most episodes the authors also find that inflation was anti-rich-that is, the inflation faced by the richest consumers was higher than the inflation faced by the poorest consumers. As a result of this bias, the observed increases in nominal inequality generally exceed the actual changes in real inequality. These results are robust to correcting for quality change bias in the CPI, to the use of alternative price indices, and to the use of alternative inequality measures. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/11/2006 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2006] , Weitere Ausgabe: Lopez, J. Humberto: Getting real about inequality
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von López, J. Humberto, 1965- Getting real about inequality 2006
    Language: English
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV040618419
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Edition: Also available in print.
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3814
    Content: "Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The null hypothesis that per capita income follows a lognormal distribution cannot be rejected-although the same hypothesis is unambiguously rejected when applied to per capita consumption. The authors show that lognormality of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/12/2006 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2006] , Weitere Ausgabe: Lopez, J. Humberto: A normal relationship?
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Lopez, J. Humberto A normal relationship? 2006
    Language: English
    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
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  • 9
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040618854
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (36 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances. Household survey-based estimates for 10 LAC countries confirm that remittances have negative albeit relatively small inequality and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants
    Note: Weitere Ausgabe: Lopez, Humberto : What Is The Impact of International Remittances On Poverty And Inequality In Latin America ?
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von López, J. Humberto, 1965- What Is The Impact of International Remittances On Poverty And Inequality In Latin America ? 2007
    Language: English
    Author information: Fajnzylber, Pablo 1964-
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV049074693
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3931
    Content: "The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation appears in the data. For this decade, he estimates that a 1 percent growth rate would be associated with an increase in the gini coefficient of between .3 to .5 percent. This positive correlation is hidden when one estimates the model without allowing for changes in the relationship over the different decades. The finding is robust to a number of departures from the basic specification including: (1) the use of alternative specifications to isolate decadal shifts; (2) the use of robust estimation techniques that address the potential influence of outliers; (3) restricting the sample to a balanced panel for the 1980s and 1990s to control for changes in the composition of the sample related to the unbalanced nature of the panel; and (4) considering the possibility of fixed effects in the data. The author also explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/30/2006
    Additional Edition: Lopez, J. Humberto Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ?
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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