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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240369
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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943604
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357933
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205817
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895496