Beyond tradeoffs
Subtitle: market reforms and equitable growth in Latin America
By: Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot, editors.
Contributors: Birdsall, Nancy.; Graham, Carol, 1962-; Sabot, R. H.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Economic development -- Congresses.; Income distribution -- Latin America -- Congresses.; Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses.; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Market reforms and equitable growth in Latin America; Inequality-reducing growth in Latin America
Description: "The essays in this book propose new ways of reducing inequality, not by growth-inhibiting transfers and regulations, but by enhancing efficiency--eliminating consumption subsidies for the wealthy, increasing the productivity of the poor, and shifting to a more labor-and-skill-demanding growth path ... [They] draw on discussions at a conference sponsored by the IDB and the MacArthur Foundation, titled "Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America," held in Washington, D.C. in January 1997"--Foreword.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Armacost and Enrique V. Iglesias; title: Virtuous circles in Latin America's second stage of reforms / Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot; title: Kinds and causes of inequality in Latin America / John Sheahan and Enrique V. Iglesias; title: Structural reforms and equity / Eduardo Lora and Juan Luis Londoño; title: Growth with equity: the volatility connection / Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann; title: No tradeoff: efficient growth via more equal human capital accumulation / Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londoño; title: Inequality-reducing growth in agriculture: a market-friendly policy agenda / Michael R. Carter and Jonathan Coles; title: Economic policy and labor market dynamics / René Cortázar, Nora Lustig, and Richard H. Sabot; title: Equity benefits from financial market reforms / Liliana Rojas-Suárez, and Steven R. Weisbrod; title: Pension reform: an efficiency-equity tradeoff? / Estelle James; title: Reforming public monopolies: water supply / Raquel Alfaro, Ralph Bradburd, and John Briscoe; title: Inequality and growth: implications for public finance and lessons from experience in the United States / Joseph Stiglitz; title: The political economy of institutional reform in Latin America / Carol Graham and Moisés Naim.