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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?

Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank

Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...

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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean

Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by the book and the data sources employed. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region,...

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

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The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia

Fields, Gary S.; Soares, Sergei - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 … factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …

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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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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001

Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …

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2013 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth

Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, clear limits to the potential use of monetary...

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