Poverty and inequality in the era of structural reforms the case of Bolivia
Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality have returned to the center of attention of academic scholars, policymakers, and the public at large. The main obstacles to analyzing this issue are incomplete income and c...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer
c2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Colección: | Kieler Studien ;
336. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009461513006719 |
| Sumario: | Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality have returned to the center of attention of academic scholars, policymakers, and the public at large. The main obstacles to analyzing this issue are incomplete income and consumption data in developing countries. Hence, the book presents a new dynamic cross-survey microsimulation methodology and applies it to generate the database for a detailed case study on Bolivia during the era of structural reforms. Building upon this database, the dynamics of different dimensions of poverty and inequality in 1989 - 2002 are analyzed with various microeconomic tools. The empirical results suggest that in the case of Bolivia the impact of the Washington Consensus has neither lived up to the expectations of its proponents nor to the fears of its critics. . |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-166) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280969638 9786610969630 9783540376491 |
