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Peres, Wilson - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines...

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Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

Bittencourt, Manoel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the …, and robust for different estimators and financial development measures ? suggest that inflation presented deleterious … inequality. Therefore, low and stable inflation, and all that it encompasses, is a necessary first step to achieve a deeper and …

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Three Decades of Neoliberal Economics in Chile: Achievements, Failures and Dilemmas

Solimano, Andres - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth patterns have serious impacts on the environment, natural...

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Export Performance in Chile: Lessons for Africa

Agosin, M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997

Since the mid-1970s, Chile's exports have expanded at a fast rate, and the export basket has diversified considerably … factors and the policy implications that can be drawn from Chile's experience for countries in Africa wishing to follow a …

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Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies: Their Impact on Wage Inequality during the Last Decade

Keifman, Saul N.; Maurizio, Roxana - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of the workings of the labour market is necessary to...

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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...

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Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2011

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

The paper reviews the steady and widespread decline in income inequality which has taken place in most of Latin America over 2002-10 and which..if continued for another 2-3 years..would reduce the average regional income inequality to pre-liberalization levels. The paper then focuses on the...

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On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

Barrientos, Armando - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....

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A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income Inequality

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Martorano, Bruno - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken place in Latin America during the last decade against the background of the changes observed in these variables during the liberal years of the 1980s and 1990s. The paper argues...

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Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa: Better policies? Better politics?

Barrientos, Armando; Villa, Juan M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfe

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