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Format
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Book
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Title
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 Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America / edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.
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Publisher
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
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Physical Descrip.
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vi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Series
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CESifo seminar series
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Note(s)
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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 ... [et al.].
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Subject(s)
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Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Equality -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Subject(s)
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Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses.
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Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Other Author(s)
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Klasen, Stephan.
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Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.
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Other Author(s)
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Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
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CESifo.
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ISBN
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9780262113243 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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0262113244 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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SC Neilson Library
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UM Du Bois Library
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