Introduction / John Bishop -- Refining the basic needs approach: a multidimensional analysis of poverty in Latin America / Maria Emma Santos ... [et al.] -- Multidimensional poverty among children in Uruguay / Veronica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim, Andrea Vigorito -- Exploring intergenerational educational mobility in Argentina / Ana Ines Navaro -- Are informality and poverty dynamically integrated? : Evidence from Argentina / Francesco Devicienti, Fernando Groismon and Ambra Poggi -- Inequality evolution in Brazil: the role of cash transfer programs and other income sources / Luiz Guilherme Scorzafave and EĢrica Marina Carvalho de Lima -- Inequality reducing taxation reconsidered / Udo Ebert -- Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves / Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega -- Testing for mobility dominance / Yele Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos -- Distributional change, reference groups, and the measurement of relative deprivation / Jacques Silber and Paolo Verme -- Econometric identification of the cost of maintaining a child / Martina Menon and Frederico Perali -- Rising incomes and nutritional inequality in China / John Bishop, Haiyong Liu and Buhong Zheng.
Summary:
This volume contains papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality's third meeting held in Buenos Aries, Argentina, in July 2009. The first five papers focus on a number of Latin American countries, on the understudied topics of poverty and inequality in these areas. Specific issues covered by these papers include multidimensional poverty, equity effects of school drop-outs, and the role of transfer programs in reducing Latin American poverty. Additional papers provide research from further afield including China and France and cover topics such as: relative deprivation; taxation and inequality; mobility dominance; polarization; estimation of child costs; nutritional inequality; and transportation inequalities. The volume includes work by such well-known authors as Jacques Silber, Jean-Yves Duclos, and Udo Ebert. This book is the 18th Volume in the notable Research on Economic Equality series which offers fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality, showcasing highly topical work from both senior researchers and emerging scholars.
Series:
Research on economic inequality, 1049-2585 ; v. 18
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