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En Route to Modern Growth: Latin America in the 1990s: Essays in Honor of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro Title: Hacia un crecimiento moderno: Ensayos en honor de Carlos Díaz-Alejandro

Camargo, José Márcio; Scheinkman, José A.; Werneck, … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book addresses questions of international trade policy and the relationship between growth, distribution, and human resource development in the Latin American region.Abstract: Este libro presenta un análisis de cuestiones sobre comercio internacional y la relación entre crecimiento,...

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Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Birdsall, Nancy; Naím, Moisés; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Latin American experts demonstrate how market-friendly measures in key policy areas can promote greater equity and efficiency. By identifying win-win strategies, the authors challenge the conventional wisdom that there is always a tradeoff between these two objectives. This volume shows how...

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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 and 1997 ("Period 2"). The analysis is therefore...

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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...

Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank

What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed … health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

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A macroeconomic perspective on Asian development

Bhaduri, Amit - 2018

Macroeconomic strategies and policies have differed significantly among Asian countries over the last fifty years, and yet some common issues recur despite their immense diversity in inherited historical initial conditions, differences in political systems, geo-political situations, location and...

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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022

Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...

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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002

for EE, but negative for the FSU. Economic liberalization, privatization and deindustrialization are found to have …

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Who was impacted and how? : the COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in India

Jha, Mrinalini; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India. We find that the average household incomes dropped sharply during...

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