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Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital Development in Latin America, 1950-2025
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital Development in Latin America, 1950-2025

Presents and analyzes data on extent of and trends in poverty from 1950-94. Uses these trends to project poverty to 2025. Concludes that rapid decreases in poverty will occur only if region devotes significantly more resources to education--Handbook ofLatin American Studies, v. 57.

Socially Relevant Policy Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Socially Relevant Policy Analysis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This collection of work reviews the results of using CGE models since the early 1970s, with an emphasis on models that encompass broad structural factors such as distribution of income and wealth, land tenancy relationships, foreign trade, production, markets, and control of the means of production that are fundamental to the behavior of developing economies. Economist Lance Taylor is an advocate of aggressive government management of developing economies. The models described in this book are are easy to set up and manipulate on microcomputers and should dominate the development debate. Taylor's detailed discussion of structuralist COE models is followed by contributions that take up their ...

Beyond Contributory Pensions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Beyond Contributory Pensions

Many Latin American countries in recent years have moved toward a more inclusive pensions system with expanded coverage of the elderly. Given the difference in initial conditions, objectives pursued, and implementing capacity, results have varied noticeably across countries.

Democracy and the Left
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Democracy and the Left

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition to directly affecting public policy, democratic institutions enable left-leaning political parties to emerge, significantly influencing the allocation of social spending on poverty and inequality. But while democracy is an important determinant of redistributive change, it is by no means the only f...

Pensions at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Pensions at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean

This comprehensive book on pensions in Latin America and the Caribbean examines recent demographic trends, pension design and entitlements before providing a series of country profiles. The special chapter examines coverage and adequacy.

Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Overcoming Obstacles to Peace

"This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 ma...

Asalto al desarrollo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 292

Asalto al desarrollo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: IDB

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Getting Health Reform Right
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Getting Health Reform Right

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.

Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital Development in Latin America, 1950-2025
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 62

Poverty, Inequality, and Human Capital Development in Latin America, 1950-2025

Presents and analyzes data on extent of and trends in poverty from 1950-94. Uses these trends to project poverty to 2025. Concludes that rapid decreases in poverty will occur only if region devotes significantly more resources to education--Handbook ofLatin American Studies, v. 57.