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Book SynopsisContains papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality's third meeting held in Buenos Aries, Argentina, in July 2009. This title focuses on a number of Latin American countries, on the understudied topics of poverty and inequality in these areas.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. List of Contributors. Chapter 1 Refining the basic needs approach: A multidimensional analysis of poverty in Latin America. Chapter 2 Multidimensional poverty among children in Uruguay. Chapter 3 Exploring intergenerational educational mobility in Argentina. Chapter 4 Are informality and poverty dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina. Chapter 5 Inequality evolution in Brazil: The role of cash transfer programs and other income sources. Chapter 6 Inequality reducing taxation reconsidered. Chapter 7 Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves. Chapter 8 Testing for mobility dominance. Chapter 9 Distributional change, reference groups, and the measurement of relative deprivation. Chapter 10 Econometric identification of the cost of maintaining a child. Chapter 11 Rising incomes and nutritional inequality in China. Research on Economic Inequality. Research on Economic Inequality. Copyright page.
