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Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Samuel A. Morley
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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6. Determinants of changes in poverty

Author: George Psacharopoulos
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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"Highly empirical analysis documents increase in poverty and worsening of income distribution during 1980s. Demonstrates that low levels of education increase incidence of poverty and income inequality. Data provided for individual countries. Valuable data reference source"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author: Nora Lustig
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815753179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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"Series of well-written articles examines regional poverty and income distribution. Includes separate articles on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, as well as over 150 tables. Valuable contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author: Monika Queisser
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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"Detailed examination of impact of recent stabilization and adjustment policies on health, education, and social security in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. Good source of data. Highly competent work"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author: Barbara Fritz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317187571
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: IDB
ISBN: 1886938369
Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Statistical appendix: pp. 203-282.

Author: Ivanna Vladkova Hollar
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1455200719
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In contrast, the redistributive impact of social spending is large and progressive, leading to a progressive net redistributive effect in all countries of the region. We also show that raising tax revenues and devoting the proceeds to social spending would unambiguously improve the income of the poorest households.

Author: Gustavo Indart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351159348
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Originally published in 2004. Growth, income distribution, and labour markets are issues of pivotal importance in the Latin American context. Examining unique theoretical issues and the empirical evidence, this book provides a critical analysis of the key elements of income distribution determinants, labour market functions, trade policies, and their interrelations. As the advance of globalization becomes seemingly unstoppable, this book provides an important reappraisal of the impact of this new phenomenon, and in particular, the pernicious impact it may have on income growth and distribution. The key objective of the volume is to integrate more fully the analysis of trade and labour market economists, in order to better understand the labour market and income distribution implications of globalization and international integration. Forty years after the early calls to appropriately investigate the micro foundations of macroeconomics, the separation of the two at the policy level is more damaging than ever before - particularly for developing regions; this volume therefore makes an important contribution at the theoretical and policy levels by bringing together macroeconomic and microeconomic analyses.

Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 145195106X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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The resumption of economic growth in Latin America is predicated on the successful restoration of fiscal discipline and stabilization. In restoring fiscal discipline, the mix of policy instruments should aim at maximizing efficiency in the use of domestic and foreign resources. Poverty alleviation in Latin America is not likely to be achieved, in the near future, by economic growth. Policy should promote a more equitable distribution of income. While fiscal policy can play an important role in this process, it is important to realize that the current high domestic inflation in many Latin American countries implies that expanding social programs has high social costs. Fiscal policy should aim at increasing the income share for the poor by making the tax system more efficient and by reforming the existing social programs to make them more effectively targeted toward the poor.