Download or read book Women at Work written by Claudia Piras and published by IDB. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Winners and Losers in Colombia s Economic Growth of the 1970s written by Miguel Urrutia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines, through the use of a wide array of statistical data, how Colombia's economic growth during the decade of the 1970s affected the income of its workers.

Download or read book Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly empirical analysis documents increase in poverty and worsening of income distribution during 1980s. Demonstrates that low levels of education increase incidence of poverty and income inequality. Data provided for individual countries. Valuable data reference source"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Download or read book Earnings and Education in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Econom a Spring 2011 written by Raquel Bernal and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Spring 2011 Contents: • Editors' Summary • Buying Less but Shopping More: The Use of Nonmarket Labor during a Crisis By David McKenzie and Ernesto Schargrodsky • Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: Theory and EvidenceBy Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Dalia Hakura, and Peter Montiel • Do Political Budget Cycles Differ in Latin American Democracies?By Lorena G. Barberia and George Avelino • Recent Trends in Income Inequality in Latin AmericaBy Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces, and Leopoldo Tornarolli

Download or read book Critical Decisions at a Critical Age written by Manuelita Ureta and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior and fertility, and their adoption of adult roles as they marry or cohabitate. Analyzing these issues comparatively across countries provides a richer contrast of the broad range of behavior among youth around the region than traditional country studies. The analysis pays particular attention to the accumulation of human capital, a key determinant of living standards at the individual level and social progress at the aggregate level.

Download or read book Growth Employment and Poverty in Latin America written by Guillermo Cruces and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have these improvements halted or been reversed since the international crisis of 2008? How do the rate and character of economic growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to each other? Our contribution is an in-depth study of the multi-pronged growth-employment-poverty nexus based on a large number of labour market indicators (twelve employment and earnings indicators and four poverty and inequality indicators) for a large number of Latin American countries (sixteen of them). The book presents a positive and hopeful set of findings for the period 2000 to 2012/13. Economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. But not all improvements were equal in size or caused by the same things. Some macroeconomic factors were associated with changes in labour market conditions, some of them always in the welfare-improving direction and some others always in the welfare-reducing direction. Most countries in the region suffered a deterioration in at least some labour market indicators as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but the negative effects were reversed very quickly in most countries.

Download or read book Inequality in Latin America written by David M. De Ferranti and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality, identifies how it hampers development, and suggests ways to achieve greater equity in the distribution of wealth, incomes and opportunities. The study draws on data from 20 countries based on household surveys covering 3.6 million people, and reviews extensive economic, sociological and political science studies on inequality in Latin America. Four broad areas for action by governments and civil society groups to break the destructive pattern are outlined: (1) build more open political and social institutions, that allow the poor and historically subordinate groups to gain a greater share of agency, voice and power in society; (2) ensure that economic institutions and policies seek greater equity, through sound macroeconomic management and equitable, efficient crisis resolution institutions, that avoid the large regressive redistributions that occur during crises, and that allow for saving in good times to enhance access by the poor to social safety nets in bad times; (3) increase access by the poor to high-quality public services, especially education, health, water and electricity, as well as access to farmland and the rural services, and protect and enforce the property rights of the urban poor; (4) reform income transfer programmes so that they reach the poorest families.

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Download or read book Poverty and the WTO written by Thomas W. Hertel and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centerpiece of the Doha Development Agenda currently being negotiated under the auspices of the WTO. Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty reduction. This book brings the best scientific methods to bear on this question, taking into account the specific characteristics embodied in the Doha Development Agenda.

Download or read book Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Ricardo Paes de Barros and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person s life chances. Success in life should depend on people s choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge inequality of opportunities in access to basic services for children, learning achievement for youth, and income and consumption for adults.

Download or read book Latin America and the Caribbean Poverty and Labor Brief June 2013 written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made laudable progress in the past fifteen years in reducing poverty, building the middle class, and promoting prosperity for all levels of society. Recently, the World Bank announced a twin strategy for going forward: (1) to end extreme poverty at the global level by 2030; and (2) to promote shared prosperity. This brief reviews LAC's progress toward these objectives, outlines the continuing challenges, and proposes a policy framework for keeping the region on its upward arc and picking up the speed. The World Bank's indicator of shared prosperity underscores that recent years' economic expansion in LAC has benefited the less well-off. But despite LAC's strong gains in shared prosperity, going forward it faces significant hurdles to delivering the sustained high levels of economic growth and welfare gains that many other regions of the world have achieved. Reform agendas that are underway in a number of the region's countries are helping acclerate shared prosperity. The region now needs second-generation reforms that will reinforce the "virtuous cycle" of economic growth and equity to foster shared prosperity. This brief highlights four important policy themes that LAC vountries should consider to keep on track in the years ahead.

Download or read book Fall 2000 written by Andres Velasco and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced dramatic changes in economic policy in the last decade, decisively moving toward more open market systems. The reforms have gone hand in hand with a remarkable increase in the quality of the policy debate in the area. This new journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries. Contents of the first issue: "Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America: Facts and Policy Implications," Richard Caballero (MIT); "Regulation of Privatized Utilities: Issues and Lessons," Ronald Fischer and Pablo Serra (University of Chile); "Determinants of Crime and Violence in Latin America," Norman Loayza (Central Bank of Chile) and Daniel Lederman (World Bank); "Crisis and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics," Nora Lustig (World Bank); "Regulation and Deregulation: Lessons from Latin American Labor Markets," Carmen Pagis-Serra (IDB) and James Heckman (Chicago); "Why is There So Much Economic Insecurity in Latin America?," Dani Rodrik (Harvard).

Download or read book LAC Poverty and Labor Brief June 2015 written by Weltbank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in previous years. The bottom 40 percent of the population has also seen decelerating income growth since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region's slowing economic growth. Similarly, after more than a decade of steady decline, inequality has been stagnant since 2010 and remains high. Given the crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC's labor markets and its implications for the region's social gains going forward. It shows that the region's push to increase its human capital has yielded dividends; increases in the educational attainment of the labor force are evident across the region. Nonetheless, the substantial growth in wages observed during the last decade was not accompanied by significant changes in the labor market: agriculture and low-productivity, informal service employment continued to be key sources of income for the poor in LAC. Instead, most of the gains were seen in countries that benefitted from the commodity boom of the last decade. As the commodity boom fades and growth wanes, there is a risk that the social gains achieved in the century's first decade will erode.

Download or read book Fall 2001 written by Andres Velasco and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This semiannual journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries. Contents include: • Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America by Jere R. Behrman, ALejandro Gaviria and Migues Szekely • Conditional Cash Transfers and Their Impact on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from the PROGRESA Program in Mexico by Emmanuel Skoufias and Susan W. Parker • Public Sector Wates and Bureaucratic Quality: Evidence from Latin America by Ugo Panizza • Integration, Interdependence, and Regional Goods: An Application to Merocsur by Afonso Bevilaqua, Marcelo Catena and Ernesto Talvi • The Role of American Depositary Receipts in the Development of Emerging Markets by Alberto Moel

Download or read book Population Aging written by Daniel Cotlear and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more rapidly are in LAC. Population aging will pose challenges and offer opportunities. This book explores three sets of issues. First is a group of issues related to the support of the aging and poverty in the life cycle. This covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process. This book provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques at the intersection of demography and economics. It summarizes the policy debate about potential reforms needed to make population aging an opportunity for development.

Download or read book Ganancias Sociales en la Balanza Un Desafio de la Politica Fiscal Para America Latina Y El Caribe written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: