Umfang:
VI, 324 S.
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graph, Darst.
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24 cm
ISBN:
0262113244
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9780262113243
Serie:
CESifo seminar series
Inhalt:
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are affected by economic policy. In this book, experts on Latin American economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of policy to address them. - Contributors first analyze the historical evolution of inequality in Latin America, examining such topics as the origins of inequality in colonial land distribution, the impact of educational opportunities on earnings inequality in Brazil, and racial discrimination in Brazil's labor market. Contributors then use sophisticated panel data techniques to analyze the regional dynamics of poverty and inequality in Peru and Brazil, considering whether there are spatial poverty traps and, if so, what determines such traps. Finally, contributors use innovative impact evaluation and modeling techniques to examine specific policy issues: devaluation and dollarization in Bolivia, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico, and the distributional effect of Brazil's tax-benefit system.
Anmerkung:
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
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Enth. 8 Beitr
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Selected conference papers
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The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution
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Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades
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Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case
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Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps : an analysis of the effect of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru
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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbors
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Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia
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Medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades conditional cash-transfer program on rural youth in Mexico
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The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Politologie
Schlagwort(e):
Lateinamerika
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Armut
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Ungleichheit
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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Aufsatzsammlung
Mehr zum Autor:
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas 1960-
Mehr zum Autor:
Klasen, Stephan 1966-2020
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