Poverty and Inequality in the Era of Structural Reforms
Subtitle: The Case of Bolivia (Kieler Studien - Kiel Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9783540308942
Subjects: Poverty; Sociology; Labor; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Bolivia; Development - Economic Development; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Inequality; Latin America; Microsimulation Models; Structural Reforms; Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Description: "Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality have returned to the center of attention of academic scholars, policymakers, and the public at large. The main obstacles to analyzing this issue are incomplete income and consumption data in developing countries. Hence, the book presents a new dynamic cross-survey microsimulation methodology and applies it to generate the database for a detailed case study on Bolivia during the era of structural reforms. Building upon this database, the dynamics of different dimensions of poverty and inequality in 1989-2002 are analyzed with various microeconometric tools. The empirical results suggest that in the case of Bolivia the impact of the Washington Consensus has neither lived up to the expectations of its proponents nor to the fears of its critics."--BOOK JACKET.