This book analyses the distributional effects of economic growth on different dimensions of poverty in Colombia. It provides a microeconomic perspective on how economic growth affected poverty and inequality at the household level, as well as a macroeconomic perspective on the effects of growth...

Auf Basis mehrerer Haushaltsbefragungen und einer Vielzahl statistischer Informationen wird der Zusammenhang zwischen politischer Zielsetzung, ökonomischer Entwicklung und ethnischer Vielfalt analysiert und aus verschiedenen Perspektiven durchleuchtet. Neben allgemeinen Fragestellungen zu...

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...