Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved la...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Cruces, Guillermo, Fields, Gary S., Jaume, David, Viollaz, Mariana
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author Cruces, Guillermo
Fields, Gary S.
Jaume, David
Viollaz, Mariana
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description This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have these improvements halted or been reversed since the international crisis of 2008? How do the rate and character of economic growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to each other? Our contribution is an in-depth study of the multi-pronged growth-employment-poverty nexus based on a large number of labour market indicators (twelve employment and earnings indicators and four poverty and inequality indicators) for a large number of Latin American countries (sixteen of them). The book presents a positive and hopeful set of findings for the period 2000 to 2012/13. Economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. But not all improvements were equal in size or caused by the same things. Some macroeconomic factors were associated with changes in labour market conditions, some of them always in the welfare-improving direction and some others always in the welfare-reducing direction. Most countries in the region suffered a deterioration in at least some labour market indicators as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but the negative effects were reversed very quickly in most countries.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-348622025-01-25T10:01:09Z Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America Cruces, Guillermo Fields, Gary S. Jaume, David Viollaz, Mariana economic growth employment conditions reduction of poverty latin america Financial crisis of 2007–08 Gini coefficient Gross domestic product Labour economics Social security Unemployment thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have these improvements halted or been reversed since the international crisis of 2008? How do the rate and character of economic growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to each other? Our contribution is an in-depth study of the multi-pronged growth-employment-poverty nexus based on a large number of labour market indicators (twelve employment and earnings indicators and four poverty and inequality indicators) for a large number of Latin American countries (sixteen of them). The book presents a positive and hopeful set of findings for the period 2000 to 2012/13. Economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. But not all improvements were equal in size or caused by the same things. Some macroeconomic factors were associated with changes in labour market conditions, some of them always in the welfare-improving direction and some others always in the welfare-reducing direction. Most countries in the region suffered a deterioration in at least some labour market indicators as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but the negative effects were reversed very quickly in most countries. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T13:33:06Z 2017 book 629585 OCN: 987100947 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31376 9780198801085 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34862 eng WIDER Studies in Development Economics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31376/1/629585.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31376/1/629585.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31376/1/629585.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31376/1/629585.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31376/1/629585.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198801085.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198801085.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 UNU WIDER 9780198801085 528 Oxford, UK open access
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employment conditions
reduction of poverty
latin america
Financial crisis of 2007–08
Gini coefficient
Gross domestic product
Labour economics
Social security
Unemployment
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Cruces, Guillermo
Fields, Gary S.
Jaume, David
Viollaz, Mariana
Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title_full Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title_fullStr Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title_short Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
title_sort growth employment and poverty in latin america
topic economic growth
employment conditions
reduction of poverty
latin america
Financial crisis of 2007–08
Gini coefficient
Gross domestic product
Labour economics
Social security
Unemployment
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth
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reduction of poverty
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Financial crisis of 2007–08
Gini coefficient
Gross domestic product
Labour economics
Social security
Unemployment
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