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1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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CESifo seminar series
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CESifo seminar series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Poverty. |
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Latin America. |
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Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Equality. |
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Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses.
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Economic policy. |
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Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262113243 0262113244 (DLC) 2008029405 (OCoLC)233485430 |
| ISBN |
9780262255400 (electronic book) |
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0262255405 (electronic book) |
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0262113244 (cloth) |
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9780262113243 (cloth) |
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1282240684 |
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9781282240681 |
| Standard No. |
9786612240683 |
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