| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrations |
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CESifo seminar series |
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CESifo seminar series.
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| 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 [and others] |
| Summary |
Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data |
| Analysis |
ECONOMICS/Political Economy |
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ECONOMICS/International Economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Lateinamerika gnd |
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Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses
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15.85 history of America.
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83.14 income, income distribution.
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71.12 social stratification, social mobility.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Desigualdad social -- América Latina
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Economic policy
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Equality
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Poverty
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Social conditions
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Armut
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Ungleichheit
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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Armoede.
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Sociale ongelijkheid.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses
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Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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América Latina -- Política económica
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Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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Latijns-Amerika.
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Brazilië.
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klasen, Stephan.
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Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.
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Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
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CESifo.
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| LC no. |
2008029405 |
| ISBN |
9780262255400 |
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0262255405 |
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0262113244 |
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9780262113243 |
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1282240684 |
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9781282240681 |
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9786612240683 |
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6612240687 |
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0262309157 |
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9780262309158 |
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