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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America

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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.

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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.].

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