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A how-to guide for assessing the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty. Inequality has emerged in recent years as a major topic of economic and political discussion, but it is often unclear whether governments can or should do something about it, and if so, what that something might be. This unique volume, edited by Nora Lustig helps fill that void.

In this book, the authors analyze the best ways to help the poor in developing countries manage risks such as health shocks, unemployment, sudden drops in income, and old age. The book provides a careful assessment of issues that governments need to address in the process of designing appropriate safety nets.

Concern about the pervasiveness of poverty and income inequality in Latin America goes beyond the issue of social justice. The persistence of mass poverty and inequality pits different social groups against one another and leads to a polarization that makes consistent economic policy formation difficult. National productivity may also suffer in economies with poorly educated workforces lacking adequate health care. Statistics on poverty and in...

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Today Mexico is viewed as a success story in the management of economic adjustment and structural reform. Inflation is under control, capital and foreign investment are returning, and out growth has increased.

Hailed by CHOICE as "a concise, exceptionally clear exposition of the transformation of Mexican economic policy since 1982", the first edition of MEXICO was published at the height of "Mexico-optimism" in 1992. Two years later, however, Mexico was on the verge of financial collapse. Author Nora Lustig updates her original book and analyzes Mexico's economy and relatively slow growth in the early nineties.

Economists have had much to say about what causes aggregate economic growth, but they have been more reticent about the distributional dimension of that growth. To understand development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows, but also how its distribution behaves over time. 'The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America' is a major new contribution to tha...