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Los documentos de trabajo se derivan de distintas iniciativas de la Dirección Regional para América Latina y el Caribe, y principalmente, de los proyectos coordinados por el Área de Reducción de la Pobreza, ODM’s y Desarrollo Humano. Esta iniciativa, denominada Investigación para la Política Pública, aborda temas de trascendencia para la región y pretende contribuir al debate público en las áreas de ODM’s y pobreza, desarrollo incluyente y desarrollo humano.
2009
"Identifying successful strategies for fighting child malnutrition in Peru" Janice Seinfeld y Arlette Beltrán
Child malnutrition has not improved in the last decade in Peru, despite the important economic growth of the last fifteen years. One out of four children suffers chronic malnutrition and inequalities among different income quintiles are significant.
Descargar documento"Disentangling the role of Pre-Labor Markets Skills and Family Background when Explaining Inequality" Julio Guzman y Sergio S. Urzúa
This paper presents a model for the analysis of income inequality when schooling choices and labor market outcomes are endogenously determined. In our framework, individual's schooling decisions and labor market productivity are determined by observable characteristics and unobserved heterogeneity. "Disentangling the role of Pre-Labor Markets Skills and Family Background when Explaining Inequality" Julio Guzman y Sergio S. Urzúa
Descargar documento"Educational Expansion and Inequality of Earnings Opportunities: Recent Trends in Latin American Countries" Jérémie Gignoux
This chapter provides detailed evidence on the recent trends in the distribution of earnings opportunities, among men aged 40 to 49, in a set of five Latin American countries – Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru -, and studies the contribution of the educational expansion observed between the early 1960s to the mid 1980s to these trends.
Descargar documento"Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Latin America" Florencia Torche
Latin America is the region of the world with the highest level of income inequality (De Ferranti et al. 2004). The historical roots of economic inequality date back to the colonial times. They include the unequal distribution of land, and the establishment of institutions that prevented the access to human capital, productive resources, and political power by the majority of the population (Engerman and Sokoloff 2002).
Descargar documento"Imaginarios: Desarrollo y aplicaciones de un concepto crecientemente utilizado en las Ciencias Sociales" Carolina Moreno Bravo y Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
El concepto de imaginario ha sido utilizado para enfatizar el carácter construido de la realidad social, es decir, el postulado de que toda comunidad de sujetos actúa en función de instituciones que son creadas por ellos mismos y que tienen la capacidad de reglamentar la vida cotidiana.
Descargar documento"The Cognitive Transition in Mexico: Economic Geography and Local Governance Impacts" David Mayer-Foulkes
This article shows that cognitive ability dynamics interact with both individual and local indicators of macroeconomic wellbeing, publicly provided goods and private goods, through 141 localities in Mexico.
Descargar documento"Economic Geography of Human Development: Stratified Growth in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru" David Mayer-Foulkes
This article begins by constructing a model of stratified and divergent economic growth integrating economic geography, human development and endogenous technological change. Even in the presence of perfect capital, goods, and labor markets, economic geography and local governance can lead to stratification and divergence.
Descargar documento"An Ordinal Approach to the Study of Inequality in Life Chances: The Case of Latin America" Joseph Deutsch y Jacques Silber
The present study represents precisely an attempt to analyze inequality in life chances from an ordinal point if view.
Descargar documento"On the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Life Chances in Latin America: A Cardinal Approach" Joseph Deutsch y Jacques Silber
The present study is another attempt to analyze intergenerational mobility or more generally inequality in life chances. It takes a cardinal approach to this topic. A distinction will be made between three different concepts.
Descargar documento"Income Mobility within a Generation: An Introduction to the State of the Art in Latin America" Gary S. Fields
Before discussing mobility, it is useful to recount briefly the three other main aspects of income distribution: growth (which tells about changes in the mean), inequality (which tells about dispersion), and poverty (which tells about the bottom end of the distribution).
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17 de Mayo: Día Internacional contra la Homofobia
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Integración del género, la diversidad sexual y el …
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Human Development Report 2013 launch in St. Vincen…
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Kiosco Humanum
Cuba ha modificado su estructura familiar
Fuente: América Economía
Día contra la Homofobia: ONU recuerda la obligación de los Estados de proteger a las minorías sexuales
Fuente: ONU
Nuevo libro del BID subraya la necesidad de reformas fiscales para promover el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Fuente: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Mayor desigualdad, mayor pobreza: OCDE
Fuente: Televisa
