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

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
Descriptionvi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Other author/creatorKlasen, Stephan.
Other author/creatorNowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.
Other author/creatorUniversität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
Other author/creatorCESifo.
Series CESifo seminar series
CESifo seminar series. ^A691514
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.].
General notePapers 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008029405
ISBN9780262113243 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0262113244 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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