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  1. Inequality and economic development in Brazil
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    Erschienen: c2004
    Verlag:  World Bank, Washington, D.C

    "This study addresses three questions: Why do inequalities matter for Brazil's development? Why does Brazil occupy a position of very high inequality in the international community? What should public policy do about it?" "Excessive income inequality... mehr

    Leibniz-Fachhochschule Hannover, Bibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Online-Ressource
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    EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Standort Wiesbaden, Fachbibliothek Rechtswissenschaften
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    "This study addresses three questions: Why do inequalities matter for Brazil's development? Why does Brazil occupy a position of very high inequality in the international community? What should public policy do about it?" "Excessive income inequality is unfair and undesirable on ethical grounds and can bring adverse effects on economic growth, health outcomes, social cohesion, and crime. Brazil's excessive income inequality is associated to regressive public transfers, less equitable distribution of education, and higher wage differentials."--Jacket

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1417543558; 9781417543557
    Schriftenreihe: A World Bank country study
    Schlagworte: Equality; Income distribution
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (xxii, 281 p), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references

    ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""PART I: Policy Report""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Why Do Inequalities Matter for Brazil?""; ""2. Why is Brazil Such an Unequal Society?""; ""Inequality in Brazil""; ""The Causes of Inequality""; ""Public Policy and Equity""; ""3. What Can and Should Public Policy Do About Inequality in Brazil?""; ""Human Assets and Land: Endowments and Prices""; ""Public Social Expenditure and Taxation""; ""4. Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""PART II: Background Papers""

    ""5. Poverty and Inequality in Brazil: New Estimates from Combined PPV-PNAD Data""""Data""; ""Methodology""; ""Implementation""; ""Poverty and Inequality at the Regional Level""; ""Poverty and Inequality at Lower Levels of Disaggregation""; ""Inequality Decompositions""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""6. Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions across Countries""; ""Introduction""; ""Income Distribution in Brazil,Mexico,and the United States""; ""A General Statement of Statistical Decomposition Analysis""

    ""The Decompositions in Practice: A Specific Model""""The Brazil-United States Comparison""; ""The Brazil-Mexico Comparison""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""7. Inequality of Outcomes, Inequality of Opportunities, and Intergenerational Education Mobility in Brazil""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical Background""; ""Opportunities and the Distribution of Individual Wages""; ""Simulating the Effects of the Inequality of Opportunities on Earnings""; ""The Effects of the Inequality of Opportunities on the Distribution of Household Income""; ""Summary and Conclusion""

    ""References""""8. Indirect Taxation Reform: Searching for Dalton-Improvements in Brazil""; ""Introduction""; ""Taxation in Brazil: Recent Evolution,Trends and Issues""; ""What is the Impact of Taxation on the Distribution of Secondary Income?""; ""Dalton Improving Tax Reforms: Analytical Framework""; ""Identifying Potential Candidates for Raising and Reducing Taxes""; ""The Pairs of Tax Changes that Satisfy the Dalton Improvement Condition""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""References""

    ""9. Schooling Expansion in Demographic Transition: A Transient Opportunity for Inequality Reduction in Brazil""""Introduction""; ""Demographic Background""; ""Methodology and Data""; ""The Evolution of Education Between Cohorts: Monotonically Increasing Mean, Decreasing Inequality and Inverted U-Shaped Mean-V""; ""The Increasing Stock �to-Cohort Time Lag of Educational Attainment""; ""Simulations: Permanent and Temporary Acceleration of Educational Attainment""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""

    ""10. Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs:The Case of Bolsa Escola""