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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth

Negre, Mario - 2010

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should disproportionally benefit the poor. The paper...

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On the distributional implications of social protection reforms in Latin America

Barrientos, Armando - 2011

The paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implications for welfare institutions in the region....

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Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city

Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011

This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview...

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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?

Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015

Ecuador experienced moderate economic growth during the 2000s. The economy suffered a mild recession during the …

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Income mobility in Ecuador: New evidence from individual income tax returns

Cano, Liliana - 2015

This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015

In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...

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Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Espino, Alma; Gindling, Thomas - 2019

our findings are that education and access to public services such as utilities promote transitions into advantageous …

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A macro-micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America

Arora, Diksha; Braunstein, Elissa; Seguino, Stephanie - 2021

Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and global macroeconomic conditions. In this paper,...

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