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