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Poverty and Inequality in the Era of Structural Reforms: The Case of Bolivia

By: Spatz, Julius [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Kieler Studien - Kiel Studies: 336Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.Description: XVIII, 168 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540376491.Subject(s): Social sciences | Labor economics | Development economics | Social structure | Social inequality | Social Sciences | Social Structure, Social Inequality | Development Economics | Labor EconomicsDDC classification: 305 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The Setting -- Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Expenditure Data -- The Impact of Structural Reforms on the Formal-Informal Divide and the Skilled-Unskilled Divide -- Summary and Implications for Economic Policy.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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The Setting -- Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Expenditure Data -- The Impact of Structural Reforms on the Formal-Informal Divide and the Skilled-Unskilled Divide -- Summary and Implications for Economic Policy.

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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