Product Description: The volume aims to document and explain the sizeable decline of income inequality that has taken place in Latin America during the 2000s. It does so through an exploration of inequality changes in six representative countries, and ten policy chapters dealing with macroeconomics, foreign trade, taxation, labour market, human capital formation, and social assistance, which point to the emergence of a 'new policy model'...read more

Product Description: This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote growth, reduce inequality and diminish poverty in a sustainable way...read more

Product Description: Based on an extensive review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides the first systematic analysis of the changes in within-country income inequality over the last twenty years...read more

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Product Description: The authors in this volume utilize a common analytical framework to evaluate how economic, family structure, and public policy changes affected the well-being of children in the industrialized countries in the West and the East from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The economic crisis in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s has generated fierce debate among analysts and policy-makers concerning its causes and appropriate ways out of it. The 'structural adjustment' programmes promoted by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been at the centre of the debate...read more

The policy reforms applied in Africa in the 1980s have produced, at best, limited results. As an alternative approach to policy-making in Africa in the 1990s, this volume identifies a viable long-term development strategy focusing on the redistribution of assets and expanded access to basic services and inputs; the widening of production structures and, particularly, the revitalization of the food crop sector; and greater export substitution and regional import substitution. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: Examines the initial changes in social policies and establishment of safety nets which have accompanied the transition to the market economy in central and Eastern Europe.

Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less developed countries. At the same time, however, large-scale health programs have had a noticeable impact. This study both illustrates the extent of the current crisis and points to the successes to show how welfare policies can--and must--become part of national planning even when the economy is in crisis.