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Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean /
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington DC : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
World Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Latin American development forum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821377468 0821377469 9780821377451 0821377450 128195974X 9781281959744 6611959742 9786611959746 |