Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches

Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine d...

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Main Author: Lay, Jann (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2018
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