Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Over the past decade, faster growth and smarter social policy have reversed the trend in Latin America's poverty. Too slowly and insufficiently, but undeniably, the percentage of Latinos who are poor has at long last begun to fall. This has sh...
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ABSTINENCE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO FINANCE ADOLESCENTS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ANTIDISCRIMINATION ASSESSMENT OF INEQUALITY AVERAGE CHANGE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CALORIC INTAKE CAPITAL MARKETS CHANGES IN INEQUALITY CITIZENS CLEAN WATER COMPUTER ACCESS CONFLICT CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISCRIMINATION DISSEMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES DISTRIBUTIONS OF INCOME EARNINGS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIC SUCCESS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENROLLMENT EQUAL ACCESS EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC MINORITIES ETHNIC MINORITY EXPLAINING INEQUALITY FAMILY RESOURCES FARMER FISCAL POLICY FORMAL EDUCATION GDP GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GLOBAL CONSENSUS GOVERNMENT POLICIES GOVERNMENT POLICY HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGH INCOME INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX IMMUNIZATION INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOMES INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION INEQUALITY OF INCOME INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY OF TREATMENT INEQUALITY REDUCTION INEQUALITY TRAP INEQUALITY TRAPS INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION INEQUITIES INEQUITY INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT CLIMATE JOB CREATION JUDGE JUSTICE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LAND OWNERSHIP LANGUAGE BARRIERS LAWS LEGAL STATUS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LIBERTY LIFE EXPECTANCY LITERACY LIVE BIRTHS LOW INCOME MACROECONOMICS MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN LOG DEVIATION MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INEQUALITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MOTHER NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL RESOURCES NUTRITION OUTCOME DATA OVERALL INEQUALITY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DESIGN POLICY MAKERS POLICY MAKING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL RIGHT POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POOR POOR CHILDREN POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE VALUE POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PRIVACY PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATIZATION PROGRAMS PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RACE REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RESIDUAL COMPONENT RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RIGHT RUNNING WATER RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL DIVIDE SAFE WATER SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN SEX SIMULATIONS SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CONDITIONS SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EQUALITY SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL RESEARCH SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRESS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERTIARY EDUCATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES UNEQUAL OUTCOMES UNION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS VILLAGE VULNERABILITY WIDOW WILL YOUNG PEOPLE |
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ABSTINENCE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO FINANCE ADOLESCENTS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ANTIDISCRIMINATION ASSESSMENT OF INEQUALITY AVERAGE CHANGE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CALORIC INTAKE CAPITAL MARKETS CHANGES IN INEQUALITY CITIZENS CLEAN WATER COMPUTER ACCESS CONFLICT CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISCRIMINATION DISSEMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES DISTRIBUTIONS OF INCOME EARNINGS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIC SUCCESS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENROLLMENT EQUAL ACCESS EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC MINORITIES ETHNIC MINORITY EXPLAINING INEQUALITY FAMILY RESOURCES FARMER FISCAL POLICY FORMAL EDUCATION GDP GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GLOBAL CONSENSUS GOVERNMENT POLICIES GOVERNMENT POLICY HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGH INCOME INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX IMMUNIZATION INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOMES INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION INEQUALITY OF INCOME INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY OF TREATMENT INEQUALITY REDUCTION INEQUALITY TRAP INEQUALITY TRAPS INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION INEQUITIES INEQUITY INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT CLIMATE JOB CREATION JUDGE JUSTICE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LAND OWNERSHIP LANGUAGE BARRIERS LAWS LEGAL STATUS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LIBERTY LIFE EXPECTANCY LITERACY LIVE BIRTHS LOW INCOME MACROECONOMICS MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN LOG DEVIATION MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INEQUALITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MOTHER NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL RESOURCES NUTRITION OUTCOME DATA OVERALL INEQUALITY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DESIGN POLICY MAKERS POLICY MAKING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL RIGHT POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POOR POOR CHILDREN POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE VALUE POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PRIVACY PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATIZATION PROGRAMS PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RACE REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RESIDUAL COMPONENT RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RIGHT RUNNING WATER RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL DIVIDE SAFE WATER SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN SEX SIMULATIONS SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CONDITIONS SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EQUALITY SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL RESEARCH SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRESS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERTIARY EDUCATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES UNEQUAL OUTCOMES UNION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS VILLAGE VULNERABILITY WIDOW WILL YOUNG PEOPLE Paes de Barros, Ricardo Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Molinas Vega, Jose R. Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Latin America & Caribbean Latin America Caribbean |
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Over the past decade, faster growth and
smarter social policy have reversed the trend in Latin
America's poverty. Too slowly and insufficiently, but
undeniably, the percentage of Latinos who are poor has at
long last begun to fall. This has shifted the political and
policy debates from poverty toward inequality, something to
be expected in a region that exhibits the world's most
regressive distribution of development outcomes such as
income, land ownership, and educational achievement. This
book is a breakthrough in the measurement of human
opportunity. It builds sophisticated formulas to answer a
rather simple question: how much influence do personal
circumstances have on the access that children get to the
basic services that are necessary for a productive life?
Needless to say, producing a methodology to measure human
opportunity, and applying it across countries in one region,
is just a first step. On the one hand, technical discussions
and scientific vetting will continue, and refinements will
surely follow. On the other, applying the new tool to a
single country will allow for adjustments that make the
findings much more useful to its policy realities. And
fascinating comparative lessons could be learned by
measuring human opportunity in developed countries across,
say, the states of the United States or the nations of
Europe. But the main message this book delivers remains a
powerful one: it is possible to make equity a central
purpose, if not the very definition, of development. That
is, perhaps, it's most important contribution. |
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Publications & Research |
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Paes de Barros, Ricardo Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Molinas Vega, Jose R. Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime |
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Paes de Barros, Ricardo Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Molinas Vega, Jose R. Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime |
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Paes de Barros, Ricardo |
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Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_short |
Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_full |
Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_fullStr |
Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Measuring Inequality of
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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measuring inequality of
opportunities in latin america and the caribbean |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2012 |
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okr-10986-25802021-04-23T14:02:03Z Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean Paes de Barros, Ricardo Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Molinas Vega, Jose R. Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime ABSTINENCE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCESS TO FINANCE ADOLESCENTS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ANTIDISCRIMINATION ASSESSMENT OF INEQUALITY AVERAGE CHANGE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE CALORIC INTAKE CAPITAL MARKETS CHANGES IN INEQUALITY CITIZENS CLEAN WATER COMPUTER ACCESS CONFLICT CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES DISADVANTAGED GROUP DISCRIMINATION DISSEMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES DISTRIBUTIONS OF INCOME EARNINGS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIC SUCCESS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS EDUCATED MOTHERS EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENROLLMENT EQUAL ACCESS EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUITABLE ACCESS ETHNIC MINORITIES ETHNIC MINORITY EXPLAINING INEQUALITY FAMILY RESOURCES FARMER FISCAL POLICY FORMAL EDUCATION GDP GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GLOBAL CONSENSUS GOVERNMENT POLICIES GOVERNMENT POLICY HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGH INCOME INEQUALITY HOME HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HOUSES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX IMMUNIZATION INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOMES INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION INEQUALITY OF INCOME INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY INEQUALITY OF TREATMENT INEQUALITY REDUCTION INEQUALITY TRAP INEQUALITY TRAPS INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION INEQUITIES INEQUITY INFANT INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERVENTIONS INVESTMENT CLIMATE JOB CREATION JUDGE JUSTICE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LAND OWNERSHIP LANGUAGE BARRIERS LAWS LEGAL STATUS LEVEL OF EDUCATION LEVELS OF INEQUALITY LIBERTY LIFE EXPECTANCY LITERACY LIVE BIRTHS LOW INCOME MACROECONOMICS MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN LOG DEVIATION MEASURE OF INEQUALITY MEASURING INEQUALITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MOTHER NATIONAL COUNCIL NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL RESOURCES NUTRITION OUTCOME DATA OVERALL INEQUALITY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION POLICY DESIGN POLICY MAKERS POLICY MAKING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL RIGHT POLITICAL SCIENTISTS POOR POOR CHILDREN POSITIVE CORRELATION POSITIVE VALUE POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY PRIVACY PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATIZATION PROGRAMS PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY RACE REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RESIDUAL COMPONENT RESIDUAL INEQUALITY RIGHT RUNNING WATER RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL DIVIDE SAFE WATER SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN SEX SIMULATIONS SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL CONDITIONS SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EQUALITY SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL RESEARCH SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRESS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TERTIARY EDUCATION TOTAL INEQUALITY UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES UNEQUAL OUTCOMES UNION UNIVERSAL ACCESS URBAN AREAS VILLAGE VULNERABILITY WIDOW WILL YOUNG PEOPLE Over the past decade, faster growth and smarter social policy have reversed the trend in Latin America's poverty. Too slowly and insufficiently, but undeniably, the percentage of Latinos who are poor has at long last begun to fall. This has shifted the political and policy debates from poverty toward inequality, something to be expected in a region that exhibits the world's most regressive distribution of development outcomes such as income, land ownership, and educational achievement. This book is a breakthrough in the measurement of human opportunity. It builds sophisticated formulas to answer a rather simple question: how much influence do personal circumstances have on the access that children get to the basic services that are necessary for a productive life? Needless to say, producing a methodology to measure human opportunity, and applying it across countries in one region, is just a first step. On the one hand, technical discussions and scientific vetting will continue, and refinements will surely follow. On the other, applying the new tool to a single country will allow for adjustments that make the findings much more useful to its policy realities. And fascinating comparative lessons could be learned by measuring human opportunity in developed countries across, say, the states of the United States or the nations of Europe. But the main message this book delivers remains a powerful one: it is possible to make equity a central purpose, if not the very definition, of development. That is, perhaps, it's most important contribution. 2012-03-19T10:02:15Z 2012-03-19T10:02:15Z 2009 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20081211231618 978-0-8213-7745-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2580 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean Latin America Caribbean |