The Changing Way Governments Talk about Poverty and Inequality : Evidence from Two Centuries of Latin American Presidential Speeches

The Changing Way Governments Talk about Poverty and Inequality : Evidence from Two Centuries of Latin American Presidential Speeches

This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential "state-of-the-union"--type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent decades in references to poverty...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar, Eizmendi, Axel, Reyes, German
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	POVERTY INEQUALITY TEXT MINING PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES POLITICAL ECONOMY GOVERNANCE DIRICHLET ALLOCATION ALGORITHM SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC SPENDING SOCIAL SPENDING POVERTY REDUCTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163671516628297136/The-changing-way-governments-talk-about-poverty-and-inequality-evidence-from-two-centuries-of-Latin-American-presidential-speeches http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29221

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/163671516628297136/The-changing-way-governments-talk-about-poverty-and-inequality-evidence-from-two-centuries-of-Latin-American-presidential-speeches
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29221