Research Catalog

Title

Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Details

Additional Authors

• Klasen, Stephan.
• Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.
• Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
• CESifo.

Description

1 online resource (vi, 324 p.) : ill.

Series Statement

CESifo seminar series

Uniform Title

• Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America (Online)
• CESifo seminar series.

Subject

• Poverty > Latin America > Congresses
• Equality > Latin America > Congresses
• Latin America > Economic policy > Congresses
• Latin America > Social conditions > Congresses

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution / Ewout Frankema -- Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades / Denis Cogneau and Jérémie Gignoux -- Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case / Phillippe G. Leite -- Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps : an analysis of the effect of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru / Philippe De Vreyer, Javier Herrera, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps -- Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbors / Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel -- Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia / Rainer Schweikert, Rainer Thiele, and Manfred Wiebelt -- Medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades conditional cash-transfer program on rural youth in Mexico / Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, and Petra E. Todd -- The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty / Herwig Immervoll ... [et al.].

LCCN

2008029405

OCLC

ssj0000225168

Title

Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Series

CESifo seminar series

CESifo seminar series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Klasen, Stephan.

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.

Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.

CESifo.