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Schejtman, Alexander; Berry, Albert; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank

Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...

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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001

Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …

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Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America

Dahan, Momi; Gaviria, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations.

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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …

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Inequality and the Family in Latin America

Hausmann, Ricardo; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based on the correlation of schooling gaps between siblings.

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation. In particular, legislative malapportionment enables rich elites to exercise disproportionate political influence. Because over-represented districts tend to be dominated by...

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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth … inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

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How Early Childhood Interventions Can Reduce Inequality: An Overview of Recent Findings

Deutsch, Ruthanne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors analize programs targeted to overcome some or all of the...

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