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The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America
- Title
- The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America / Francois Bourguigon, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, editors.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : World Bank ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xx, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The authors propose a decomposition of differences in entire distributions of household incomes, which sheds new light on the powerful, and often conflicting, forces that underpin the changes in poverty and inequality that accompany the process of economic development. This approach is applied to three East Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, and Taiwan, China - and to four Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico - in recent periods. The book is the outcome of a joint research project of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America
- Subjects
- Note
- "A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Nora Lustig -- 2. Decomposing changes in the distribution of household incomes : methodological aspects / Francois Bourguignon and Francisco H. G. Ferreira -- 3. Characterization of inequality changes through microeconometric decompositions : the case of greater Buenos Aires / Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Walter Sosa Escudero -- 4. The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96 / Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Ricardo Paes de Barros -- 5. The reversal of inequality trends in Colombia, 1978-95 : a combination of persistent and fluctuating forces / Carlos Eduardo Velez, Jose Leibovich, Adriana Kugler, Cesar Bouillon and Jairo Nunez -- 6. The evolution of income distribution during Indonesia's fast growth, 1980-96 / Vivi Alatas and Francois Bourguignon -- 7. The microeconomics of changing income distribution in Malaysia / Gary S. Fields and Sergei Soares -- 8. Can education explain changes in income inequality in Mexico? / Arianna Legovini, Cesar Bouillon and Nora Lustig -- 9. Distribution, development, and education in Taiwan, China, 1979-94 / Francois Bourguignon, Martin Fournier and Marc Gurgand -- 10. A synthesis of the results / Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Nora Lustig.
- ISBN
- 0821358618
- LCCN
- 2004059638
- OCLC
- ocm56590942
- SCSB-5100232
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries