Measuring Inequality of
            Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Paes de Barros, Ricardo; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Molinas Vega, Jose R.; Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime

dc.creator	Paes de Barros, Ricardo
dc.creator	Ferreira, Francisco H.G.
dc.creator	Molinas Vega, Jose R.
dc.creator	Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime
dc.date	2012-03-19T10:02:15Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T10:02:15Z
dc.date	2009
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-17T20:38:28Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-17T20:38:28Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20081211231618
dc.identifier	978-0-8213-7745-1
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2580
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242984
dc.description	Over the past decade, faster growth and smarter social policy have reversed the trend in Latin America's poverty. Too slowly and insufficiently, but undeniably, the percentage of Latinos who are poor has at long last begun to fall. This has shifted the political and policy debates from poverty toward inequality, something to be expected in a region that exhibits the world's most regressive distribution of development outcomes such as income, land ownership, and educational achievement. This book is a breakthrough in the measurement of human opportunity. It builds sophisticated formulas to answer a rather simple question: how much influence do personal circumstances have on the access that children get to the basic services that are necessary for a productive life? Needless to say, producing a methodology to measure human opportunity, and applying it across countries in one region, is just a first step. On the one hand, technical discussions and scientific vetting will continue, and refinements will surely follow. On the other, applying the new tool to a single country will allow for adjustments that make the findings much more useful to its policy realities. And fascinating comparative lessons could be learned by measuring human opportunity in developed countries across, say, the states of the United States or the nations of Europe. But the main message this book delivers remains a powerful one: it is possible to make equity a central purpose, if not the very definition, of development. That is, perhaps, it's most important contribution.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.publisher	New York: Palgrave Macmillan
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ABSTINENCE
dc.subject	ACCESS TO EDUCATION
dc.subject	ACCESS TO FINANCE
dc.subject	ADOLESCENTS
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
dc.subject	ANTIDISCRIMINATION
dc.subject	ASSESSMENT OF INEQUALITY
dc.subject	AVERAGE CHANGE
dc.subject	AVERAGE GROWTH
dc.subject	BASIC EDUCATION
dc.subject	BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject	CALORIC INTAKE
dc.subject	CAPITAL MARKETS
dc.subject	CHANGES IN INEQUALITY
dc.subject	CITIZENS
dc.subject	CLEAN WATER
dc.subject	COMPUTER ACCESS
dc.subject	CONFLICT
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY
dc.subject	DATA SETS
dc.subject	DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT BANK
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES
dc.subject	DISADVANTAGED GROUP
dc.subject	DISCRIMINATION
dc.subject	DISSEMINATION
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTION OF OUTCOMES
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONS OF INCOME
dc.subject	EARNINGS
dc.subject	EARNINGS INEQUALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC STUDIES
dc.subject	ECONOMIC SUCCESS
dc.subject	ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS
dc.subject	EDUCATED MOTHERS
dc.subject	EDUCATION LEVELS
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
dc.subject	EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
dc.subject	ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	EQUAL ACCESS
dc.subject	EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
dc.subject	EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subject	EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
dc.subject	EQUITABLE ACCESS
dc.subject	ETHNIC MINORITIES
dc.subject	ETHNIC MINORITY
dc.subject	EXPLAINING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	FAMILY RESOURCES
dc.subject	FARMER
dc.subject	FISCAL POLICY
dc.subject	FORMAL EDUCATION
dc.subject	GDP
dc.subject	GENDER
dc.subject	GINI COEFFICIENT
dc.subject	GLOBAL CONSENSUS
dc.subject	GOVERNMENT POLICIES
dc.subject	GOVERNMENT POLICY
dc.subject	HEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subject	HIGH INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	HOME
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject	HOUSES
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
dc.subject	IMMUNIZATION
dc.subject	INCOME DIFFERENCES
dc.subject	INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INCOME GROUPS
dc.subject	INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INCOME REDISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INCOMES
dc.subject	INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
dc.subject	INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
dc.subject	INEQUALITIES
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION
dc.subject	INEQUALITY OF INCOME
dc.subject	INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subject	INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY OF TREATMENT
dc.subject	INEQUALITY REDUCTION
dc.subject	INEQUALITY TRAP
dc.subject	INEQUALITY TRAPS
dc.subject	INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INEQUITIES
dc.subject	INEQUITY
dc.subject	INFANT
dc.subject	INFANT MORTALITY
dc.subject	INFANT MORTALITY RATE
dc.subject	INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
dc.subject	INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION
dc.subject	INTERNATIONAL BANK
dc.subject	INTERVENTIONS
dc.subject	INVESTMENT CLIMATE
dc.subject	JOB CREATION
dc.subject	JUDGE
dc.subject	JUSTICE
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	LABOR MARKETS
dc.subject	LAND OWNERSHIP
dc.subject	LANGUAGE BARRIERS
dc.subject	LAWS
dc.subject	LEGAL STATUS
dc.subject	LEVEL OF EDUCATION
dc.subject	LEVELS OF INEQUALITY
dc.subject	LIBERTY
dc.subject	LIFE EXPECTANCY
dc.subject	LITERACY
dc.subject	LIVE BIRTHS
dc.subject	LOW INCOME
dc.subject	MACROECONOMICS
dc.subject	MEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	MEAN LOG DEVIATION
dc.subject	MEASURE OF INEQUALITY
dc.subject	MEASURING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL
dc.subject	MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subject	MOTHER
dc.subject	NATIONAL COUNCIL
dc.subject	NATIONAL LEVEL
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subject	NUTRITION
dc.subject	OUTCOME DATA
dc.subject	OVERALL INEQUALITY
dc.subject	PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	POLICY DESIGN
dc.subject	POLICY MAKERS
dc.subject	POLICY MAKING
dc.subject	POLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	POLITICAL RIGHT
dc.subject	POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
dc.subject	POOR
dc.subject	POOR CHILDREN
dc.subject	POSITIVE CORRELATION
dc.subject	POSITIVE VALUE
dc.subject	POVERTY ANALYSIS
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	PREGNANCY
dc.subject	PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subject	PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY
dc.subject	PRIVACY
dc.subject	PRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subject	PRIVATIZATION
dc.subject	PROGRAMS
dc.subject	PROGRESS
dc.subject	PROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subject	PUBLIC POLICIES
dc.subject	PUBLIC POLICY
dc.subject	PUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subject	PURCHASING POWER
dc.subject	PURCHASING POWER PARITY
dc.subject	RACE
dc.subject	REDISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES
dc.subject	REDUCING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	REDUCING POVERTY
dc.subject	RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
dc.subject	RELATIVE INCOME
dc.subject	REMITTANCES
dc.subject	RESIDUAL COMPONENT
dc.subject	RESIDUAL INEQUALITY
dc.subject	RIGHT
dc.subject	RUNNING WATER
dc.subject	RURAL
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	RURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	RURAL DIVIDE
dc.subject	SAFE WATER
dc.subject	SANITATION
dc.subject	SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
dc.subject	SECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	SECONDARY SCHOOLING
dc.subject	SERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subject	SERVICES FOR CHILDREN
dc.subject	SEX
dc.subject	SIMULATIONS
dc.subject	SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLD
dc.subject	SOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subject	SOCIAL CONDITIONS
dc.subject	SOCIAL CONFLICT
dc.subject	SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	SOCIAL EQUALITY
dc.subject	SOCIAL POLICIES
dc.subject	SOCIAL POLICY
dc.subject	SOCIAL RESEARCH
dc.subject	SOCIAL SECURITY
dc.subject	SOCIAL SERVICE
dc.subject	SOCIAL WELFARE
dc.subject	SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND
dc.subject	SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRESS
dc.subject	SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
dc.subject	TERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	TOTAL INEQUALITY
dc.subject	UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subject	UNEQUAL OUTCOMES
dc.subject	UNION
dc.subject	UNIVERSAL ACCESS
dc.subject	URBAN AREAS
dc.subject	VILLAGE
dc.subject	VULNERABILITY
dc.subject	WIDOW
dc.subject	WILL
dc.subject	YOUNG PEOPLE
dc.title	Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.type	Publications & Research
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Publication
dc.coverage	Latin America & Caribbean
dc.coverage	Latin America
dc.coverage	Caribbean

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