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Left Behind : Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herndon :
World Bank Publications,
2016.
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| Colección: | Latin American development forum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Overview; A Successful Decade with Challenges Ahead; A Framework for Studying Chronic Poverty; Measuring Chronic Poverty in the Absence of Longitudinal Data; Five Stylized Facts about Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean; From Diagnosis to Policies: Design Elements Supporting the Chronically Poor; Notes; References; Chapter 1: The Roaring 2000s and the Left Behind; Notes; References; Chapter 2: What Is Chronic Poverty and How Is It Measured?
- Conceptual UnderpinningsThe Empirical Challenges of Measuring Chronic Poverty; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Five Facts about Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean; Stylized Fact 1: One of Five People in Latin America and the Caribbean Lives in Chronic Poverty; Stylized Fact 2: Chronic Poverty Tends to Be Geographically Concentrated; Stylized Fact 3: Chronic Poverty Is As Big a Problem in Urban Areas as in Rural Areas; Stylized Fact 4: Economic Growth Was Not Sufficient to Lift the Chronically Poor out of Poverty.
- Stylized Fact 5: The Chronically Poor Have Limited Income OpportunitiesNotes; References; Chapter 4: Unraveling the Complexities of Chronic Poverty; Endowments, the Context, and Chronic Poverty; State of Mind and the Process of Emerging from Poverty; Notes; References; Chapter 5: From Diagnosis to Policies: Crafting Coordinated Policies That Reduce Chronic Poverty; Improving Endowments and the Enabling Context; Coordinating Poverty-Reduction Efforts; Recognizing the State of Mind of the Poor in Crafting Policy.
- Developing Coordinated Solutions that Address Behavioral Constraints: Social Intermediation ServicesNote; References; Appendix; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Boxes; 2.1 The framework in practice; 3.1 Monetary versus nonmonetary measures of chronic poverty; 4.1 Ethnicity and chronic poverty in rural Guatemala; 4.2 Connectivity pays off: Reducing poverty in rural Peru; 4.3 Improving institutions, reducing poverty in Colombia; 4.4 Does increased public expenditures reduce crime and chronic poverty? Evidence from Mexico.
- 4.5 Does poverty cause stress?5.1 Does increased public spending help reduce poverty? Evidence from Peru; 5.2 Coordinating poverty-reduction efforts in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru; Figures; O.1 Poverty, vulnerability, and the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000-12; O.2 From chronic poverty to upward mobility: Inputs and the process of emerging from poverty; O.3 Chronic poverty and downward mobility in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004-12; O.4 Subnational chronic poverty rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012.