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    <title>Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America</title>
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    <namePart>Klasen, Stephan.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Universität Göttingen</namePart>
    <namePart>Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>CESifo</namePart>
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    <publisher>MIT Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>324 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The colonial origins of inequality : exploring the causes and consequences of land distribution / Ewout Frankema -- Earnings inequality and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades / Denis Cogneau and Jérémie Gignoux -- Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities : the Brazilian case / Phillippe G. Leite -- Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps : an analysis of the effect of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru / Philippe De Vreyer, Javier Herrera, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps -- Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbors / Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel -- Macroeconomic and distributional effects of devaluation in a dollarized economy : a CGE analysis for Bolivia / Rainer Schweikert, Rainer Thiele, and Manfred Wiebelt -- Medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades conditional cash-transfer program on rural youth in Mexico / Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, and Petra E. Todd -- The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty / Herwig Immervoll ... [et al.].</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann.</note>
  <note>Papers from a conference held at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research in Göttingen, Germany, in July 2005 and co-sponsored by the CESifo research network.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M10</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Poverty</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Equality</topic>
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
    <topic>Economic policy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Latin America</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HC130 P739 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780262113243</identifier>
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