Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
By: edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.
Contributors: Klasen, Stephan.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.; CESifo.
Series: CESifo seminar series
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780262113243
Subjects: Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses; Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses; Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: 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.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution / Ewout Frankema; title: Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades / Denis Cogneau and Jérémie Gignoux; title: Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case / Phillippe G. Leite; title: 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; title: Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours / Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel; title: Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia / Rainer Schweikert, Rainer Thiele, and Manfred Wiebelt; title: 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; title: The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty / Herwig Immervoll ... [et al.].