Documentos e informes
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Equity for sustained growth : Pernambuco state equity assessment (Inglés)
Starting from the aggregate, this report first describes how Pernambuco has fared with respect to the rest of Brazil, both in terms of economic and social welfare performance, over the last decade (2001-2012)...
Tipo de documento: Memorando económico sobre el país Número del informe: ACS9066 Fecha del documento: 9 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Sharman,Mary Alexander
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Crime and growth convergence : evidence from Mexico (Inglés)
Scholars have often argued that crime deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such effect is scarce. By exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6730 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Enamorado Enamorado,Ted,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
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Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America (Inglés)
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries where there are comparable data, and the change was statistically significant for all...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6552 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Lustig,Nora C,Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
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The unfairness of (poverty) targets (Inglés)
Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6361 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Allwine,Melanie,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Rigolini,Iamele P.
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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class (Inglés)
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the first years of the 21st century, the author examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. The author define the middle class by...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 82808 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Torche,Florencia
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Teenage pregnancy and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean on early child bearing, poverty, and economic achievement (Vol. 1 of 2) : Embarazo adolescente resumen 2013 (Español)
The pregnancy project sought to expose the existence, and challenge the validity, of stereotypes about Hispanic women. The charade explored the underlying motivations of the many who responded with a wide...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 83167 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Favara,Marta,Haddock,Sarah Elizabeth,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Muller,Miriam,Perova,Elizaveta
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Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (Inglés)
Between 2000 and 2010, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6248 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Lustig,Nora C,Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
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Is the baby to blame ? an inquiry into the consequences of early childbearing (Inglés)
Teenage pregnancy has been a cause of concern for policy makers because it is associated with a complex and often adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6074 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Perova,Elizaveta
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Inequality in focus vol. 1 (no. 1) (Inglés)
This Inequality in Focus newsletter includes the following headings: Introduction to the Inequality in Focus series; An overview of global income inequality trends; Declining income inequality in Brazil:...
Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 79921 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Mulligan,Mary Anne,Olinto,Pedro,Saavedra,Jaime
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Inequality in focus vol. 1 (no. 1) : Introduction à la série : pleins feux sur les inégalités (no. 1) (Francés)
This Inequality in Focus newsletter includes the following headings: Introduction to the Inequality in Focus series; An overview of global income inequality trends; Declining income inequality in Brazil:...
Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 79921 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Mulligan,Mary Anne,Olinto,Pedro,Saavedra,Jaime
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Inequality in focus vol. 1 (no. 1) (Español)
This Inequality in Focus newsletter includes the following headings: Introduction to the Inequality in Focus series; An overview of global income inequality trends; Declining income inequality in Brazil:...
Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 79921 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Mulligan,Mary Anne,Olinto,Pedro,Saavedra,Jaime
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Teenage pregnancy and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean on early child bearing, poverty, and economic achievement (Vol. 1 of 2) : Teenage pregnancy summary 2013 (Inglés)
The pregnancy project sought to expose the existence, and challenge the validity, of stereotypes about Hispanic women. The charade explored the underlying motivations of the many who responded with a wide...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 83167 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Favara,Marta,Haddock,Sarah Elizabeth,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Muller,Miriam,Perova,Elizaveta
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Teenage pregnancy and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean on early child bearing, poverty, and economic achievement (Vol. 2 of 2) : Teenage pregnancy book 2013 (Inglés)
The pregnancy project sought to expose the existence, and challenge the validity, of stereotypes about Hispanic women. The charade explored the underlying motivations of the many who responded with a wide...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 83167 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Favara,Marta,Haddock,Sarah Elizabeth,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Muller,Miriam,Perova,Elizaveta
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A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class (Inglés)
Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they search for the potential engines of growth and good governance. This debate assumes...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5902 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
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Is there such thing as middle class values ? Class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America (Inglés)
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. This paper investigates the relation between class (measured by position in the income distribution), values, and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5874 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Rigolini,Iamele P.,Torche,Florencia
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Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households : evidence from Mexico (Inglés)
The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3487 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Autor: Bando,Rosangela,Lopez-Calva, Luis F.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Private participation in infrastructure and labor issues : the privatization of Mexican railroads (Inglés)
The discussion about the relevance of railroads in Mexico goes beyond its economic dimension. Due to historical reasons the debate is typically charged with an enormous amount of ideological and political...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 34502 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2001 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lopez-Calva, Luis F.