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Title:

Beyond tradeoffs : market reforms and equitable growth in Latin America / Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot, editors.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,
Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

[v], 367 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Economic development--Congresses.
Income distribution--Latin America--Congresses.
Equality--Latin America--Congresses.
Latin America--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Birdsall, Nancy. edt
Graham, Carol, 1962- edt
Sabot, R. H. edt
Inter-American Development Bank.
Brookings Institution.
Conference Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America (1997 : Washington, D.C.)

Notes:

"The chapters draw on discussions at a conference sponsored by the IDB and the MacArthur Foundation, titled "Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America" held in Washington, D.C. in January 1997"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The political economy of institutional reform in Latin America / Carol Graham and Moisés Naim. Virtuous circles in Latin America's second stage of reforms / Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot -- Kinds and causes of inequality in Latin America / John Sheahan and Enrique V. Iglesias -- Structural reforms and equity / Eduardo Lora and Juan Luis Londoño -- Growth with equity: the volatility connection / Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann -- No tradeoff: efficient growth via more equal human capital accumulation / Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londoño -- Inequality-reducing growth in agriculture: a market-friendly policy agenda / Michael R. Carter and Jonathan Coles -- Economic policy and labor market dynamics / René Cortázar, Nora Lustig, and Richard H. Sabot -- Equity benefits from financial market reforms / Liliana Rojas-Suárez, and Steven R. Weisbrod -- Pension reform: an efficiency-equity tradeoff? / Estelle James -- Reforming public monopolies: water supply / Raquel Alfaro, Ralph Bradburd, and John Briscoe -- Inequality and growth: implications for public finance and lessons from experience in the United States / Joseph Stiglitz -- The political economy of institutional reform in Latin America / Carol Graham and Moisés Naim.

Summary:

"The essays in this book propose new ways of reducing inequality, not by growth-inhibiting transfers and regulations, but by enhancing efficiency--eliminating consumption subsidies for the wealthy, increasing the productivity of the poor, and shifting to a more labor-and-skill-demanding growth path...They draw on discussions at a conference sponsored by the IDB and the MacArthur Foundation, titled "Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America," held in Washington, D.C. in January 1997"--Foreword.

Series:

Economic development

ISBN:

9780815709213 (pbk.)
0815709218 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39893867

LCCN:

98072692

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