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Schejtman, Alexander; Berry, Albert; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank

Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...

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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001

Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …

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Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It...

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Economic Shocks, Inequality and Poverty: The Need for Safety Nets

Lustig, Nora - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

American region. Empirical evidence suggests that macroeconomic shocks can result in substantial increases in inequality and …

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

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How Early Childhood Interventions Can Reduce Inequality: An Overview of Recent Findings

Deutsch, Ruthanne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors analize programs targeted to overcome some or all of the...

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Lessons Learned from Implementing the Sustainable Development Program in the State of Acre in Brazil

Dengel, Cristina; Horton, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

communities and small producers thus supporting efforts to reduce inequality and by actions for conservation and protection of the …

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Good Practices in Poverty Targeting in IDB Projects in 1997

Deutsch, Ruthanne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting mechanisms attempt to better link the project's specific purposes with its intended group of...

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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

inequality experienced by Mexico after the 1985 trade and financial liberalization. To do so, the paper uses data from Mexican … counterfactual methodology to measure the effects on inequality of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, structure of …

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Development under Conditions of Inequality and Distrust: An Exploration of the Role of Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Latin America

Mateo-Berganza Diaz, Maria Mercedes; Ferroni, Marco; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

growth, investment and innovation capacity, governmental effectiveness, the quality of public policies, and the …

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