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Subjects:

Poverty -- Congresses.
Income distribution -- Congresses.
Poverty -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Income distribution -- Latin America -- Congresses.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

The first five papers in this volume focus on Latin American poverty and inequality, an understudied topic. Additional papers from around the world focus on issues such as: relative deprivation; taxation and inequality; mobility dominance; polarization; estimation of child costs; nutritional inequality; and transportation inequalities.

Contents:

Front cover; Research on Economic Inequality; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Refining the basic needs approach: A multidimensional analysis of poverty in Latin America; Chapter 2. Multidimensional poverty among children in Uruguay; Chapter 3. Exploring intergenerational educational mobility in Argentina; Chapter 4. Are informality and poverty dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina; Chapter 5. Inequality evolution in Brazil: The role of cash transfer programs and other income sources; Chapter 6. Inequality reducing taxation reconsidered
Chapter 7. Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curvesChapter 8. Testing for mobility dominance; Chapter 9. Distributional change, reference groups, and the measurement of relative deprivation; Chapter 10. Econometric identification of the cost of maintaining a child; Chapter 11. Rising incomes and nutritional inequality in China

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contributor:

Bishop, John A.

ISBN:

1-282-75294-4
9786612752940
0-85724-146-X

OCLC:

743201549