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Economic reforms involving the agricultural sector, such as those being proposed in the WTO Doha Round negotiations, will affect household behavior in developing countries. This paper proposes an empirical methodology to...

Crime levels have risen significantly in Argentina during recent years. In this study, we analyze the relationship between crime victimization and income distribution. Our main question is whether the rich or the poor ha...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

El objetivo del presente trabajo se fundamenta en la búsqueda de justificación de la existencia de transferencias intergubernamentales desde el punto de vista de la equidad distributiva. En este sentido, lo que se inte...

This work evaluates the social effects of economic instability using a rotating panels. It is divided in three parts: the first note qualifies the assessment of inequality in a context of changing income volatility measu...