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The Latin American Middle Class: Fragile After All?

Castellani, Francesca; Parent, Gwenn; Zenteno, Jannet - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …

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Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995

Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

The purpose of this paper is to describe the performance of the Venezuelan labor market in the period between 1982 and 1995, and to analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This period analyzed is a convulsed one, one within Venezuela that suffered from the consequences of both changes in...

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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …

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Health and Poverty in Brazil: Estimation by Structural Equation Model with Latent Variables

Giuffrida, Antonio; Iunes, Roberto F.; Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

Brazil is characterized by large inequalities in income, access to health care, and health status. This paper uses data … from the 1998 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios to analyze the complex relationships among health, income, health …

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Poverty and the Employment Problem in Argentina

Márquez, Gustavo; Morley, Samuel A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s …

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Family Spending on Health in Brazil: Some Indirect Evidence of the Regressive Nature of Public Spending in Health

Medici, André - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

universal access to health care had on family spending by income. Although the analysis found that the these measures did not …

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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scartascini, Carlos; Funaro, Rita; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...

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