This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … Latin America in the 2000s. Its analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to …

remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural changes which accompanied economic growth require examination. The … analysis of this Element is closely related to, and largely caused by, China's remarkable economic growth and income …

This paper reviews Brazil's growth performance over the last quarter of a century and discusses the main determinants … of a pick-up in growth since the mid-1990s. Emphasis is placed on the policy pay-offs associated with a consolidation of … macroeconomic adjustment, which is a pre-condition for sustained growth. Structural reform based on a liberalization of the county …