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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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of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
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promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of … approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most important taxes for the region, namely personal income tax, corporate … resource. We evaluate the effect of these tax instruments on growth for Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile using vector …
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This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and … quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study for Argentina and corroborated that low … improved appropriability and long-term growth. …
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This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin …
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The main contribution of the paper is to provide a framework within which the impacts of China's economic expansion on poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six in Latin America, which between them account for...
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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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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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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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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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