FACULTAD DE

CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Pobreza y Programas Sociales

Hora: Lunes 10:00 am 1:00
Lugar: J-301
ECO388
Semestre 2015-1
Instructores
Alejandro Granda
alegranda@gmail.com
Mnica Rubio
mrubiogrc@gmail.com
Descripcin
Este curso presenta una visin general de anlisis de la pobreza y desigualdad, incluyendo una
revisin de los mtodos cuantitativos para su medicin, los mtodos para analizar sus
determinantes. y la evaluacin de polticas para reducir la pobreza. Nuestra regin, Amrica
Latina, es la regin con los niveles ms altos de desigualdad de ingresos y donde la desigualdad
ha sido ms persistente. Sin embargo, durante la ltima dcada, la desigualdad ha disminuido en
la mayora de los pases, mientras que aument en otras regiones. A travs de estudios
comparativos de pases este curso analiza la dinmica de la desigualdad del ingreso y la pobreza
en la regin se centra en el papel de los mercados y el Estado. Asi mismo, el curso presentara la
literatura esencial sobre los programas sociales para el combate a la pobreza, asi como la
experiencia de su implementacin. DE modo consciente, el curso no se concentrara en lo
terico, sino en los aspectos conceptuales y de aplicacin.
Resultados esperados y objetivos de aprendizaje
La expectativa es que este curso, adems de presentar elementos tcnicos, permita desarrollar y
demostrar competencias en el anlisis de la pobreza, distribucin del ingreso y anlisis de
poltica social. El propsito de este curso es desarrollar una amplia comprensin de la dinmica
de la desigualdad y la pobreza en Amrica Latina y cmo las fuerzas del mercado y las polticas
y programas gubernamentales afectan esas dinmicas. Al final del curso, los estudiantes habrn
aprendido: 1. Los mtodos existentes para medir la desigualdad y la pobreza, sus propiedades y
limitaciones; 2. Los hechos en la desigualdad y la pobreza en Amrica Latina y dnde
encontrarlos; 3. teoras y mtodos para analizar las causas y consecuencias de la desigualdad y
la pobreza y aplicarlos a los pases incluidos en el curso existentes; y 4. Conceptos bsicos
detrs del diseo e implementacin de programas sociales en educacin, salud y proteccin
social.
Organizacin
El curso tendr un formato de seminario. Se espera que los estudiantes participen activamente
en clase e interacten con el instructor y entre s. Una lectura cuidadosa y crtica de los
materiales es un componente clave de este curso.
Asignaciones y calificacin
Esta clase tendr el formato de un seminario. Cada clase iniciara con dos alumnos resumiendo
las lecturas obligatorias de la sesin anterior. Los estudiantes (dos por cada clase) presentaran,
haciendo uso del powerpoint, en unos 20 a 30 minutos de duracin, la literatura. Un tercer
alumno actuara como comentarista.
La calificacin se basara adems en documentos escritos. Estos sern de dos tipos: (a) Cinco
piezas de opinin (editoriales, de 1000 palabras, sobre temas por elegirse en la clase previa a
la fecha de entrega), y (b) Una monografa corta al final del semestre, con un peso de 40% (3040 paginas a espacio simple, Times New Roman, pt 12, mrgenes estndares. incluyendo tablas

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y grficos). Todos los trabajos deben enviarse electrnicamente (va correo electrnico).

Fechas de Clase

Fechas de entrega de Piezas

de Opinin

Powerpoint 20/30
minutos (equipos)

Marzo 16
23
30

Monografa final

Presentacin de temas
elegidos

Abril 6
13
20

ndice
comentado,
Bibliografa y fuentes de
informacin

27
Mayo 4
11
18
25
Junio 1
8
15
22
50%

20%

Entrega
Monografas,
inician presentaciones
Presentaciones
Presentaciones
40%

Bibliografia
Sesion 1: Introduccion
Roslings Ted Talk on Poverty (Video)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html
Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo. 2011. Poor Economics. MIT Press.
Cowell, Frank. 1998. Measurement of Inequality. Discussion paper no. DARP/36 prepared
for Handbook of Income Distribution, edited by Anthony B. Atkinson and Franois
Bourguignon. Elsevier.
Parfit, Derek. 2000. Equality or Priority, in Clayton, Matthew and Andrew Williams (eds.)
The Ideal of Equality. St. Martins Press, New York, Chapter 5, p. 81.
*Sen, Amartya. 1992. Inequality Reexamined. Russell Sage Foundation. Chapter 1: Equality of
What?
Szekely, Miguel and Marianne Hilgert. 1999. Whats Behind the Inequality We Measure: An
Investigation Using Latin American Data. Working Paper #409. Inter-American Development
Bank. . http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTDECINEQ/Resources/szekely.pdfWorld Bank,
World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty. (Overview
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVERTY/Resources/WDR/overview.pdf

chapter)

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*World Bank, World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, (Overview chapter).
http://wdsbeta.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2005/09/20/000112
742_20050920110826/additional/841401968_200508263001833.pdf

Sesion 2: Conceptos y Medicion de la Pobreza y Desigualdad

*Haughton, Jonathan and Shahidur R. Khandker. 2009. Handbook on Poverty and Inequality,
World Bank; chapters 1-6.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,content
MDK:22405907~menuPK:6626650~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html
Alkire, Sabina and James Foster. 2011. "Understandings and Misunderstandings of
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement." OPHI Working Paper No. 43. Oxford Poverty &
Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Oxford Department of International Development,
Queen
House
(QEH),
University
of
Oxford:
Oxford,
May.
Available
online: http://www.ophi.org.uk/understandings-and-misunderstandings-of-multidimensionalpoverty-measurement/
Ravallion, Martin. 2011. "On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty." Policy Research Working
Paper 5580. Development Research Group, Director's Office, The World Bank: Washington,
DC, Feb. Available online: http://go.worldbank.org/L3K48683V0
Lustig, Nora. 2011. "Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: what do we gain
and what do we lose? An introduction to JOEI Forum on multidimensional poverty." Journal of
Economic Inequality (JOEI), May.
Chen, Shaohua and Martin Ravallion. 2008. The Developing World Is Poorer Than We
Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty. Policy Research Working Paper
4703. The World Bank.
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5265~piPK:64165423~theSitePK:469372,00.html
Szekely, Miguel et al. 2004. Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is? Oxford
Development Studies 32, no. 4: 523-558.
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. and Martin Ravallion. 2008. Global Poverty and Inequality: A
Review of the Evidence. Policy Research Working Paper 4623. The World Bank,
Development Research Group Poverty Team, May.
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,menuPK:577938~pagePK:6416
5265~piPK:64165423~theSitePK:469372,00.html
Branko Milanovic.2006. Global Income Inequality. A review. World Economics 7, no. 1,
JanuaryMarch.
* R. Blank and M. Greenberg. 2008.Improving the Measurement of Poverty, Brooking
Institution, Hamilton Project.
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/12_poverty_measurement_blank
/12_poverty_measurement_blank.pdf
* R. Haveman. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. Ch. 14, What Does it Mean to be Poor in
a Rich Society?

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U.S. Census Bureau. 2009. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage, Current
Population Reports (Washington, DC), available from:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf

Sesion 3: Pobreza Multidimensional y Vulnerabilidad

* Bourguignon, Francois and Satya Chakravarty: The measurement of multidimensional
poverty Journal of Economic Inequality 1, 25-49, 2003.
* Larraaga, O. (2007) La medicin de la pobreza en dimensiones distintas al ingreso,
CEPAL.
Hoddinot, J and A Quisumbing: Methods for microeconometric risk and vulnerability
assessments, Social Protection Discussion Paper Series 0324, The World Bank, December
2003
Bourguignon, Francois and Satya Chakravarty: Multi-dimensional poverty orderings,
DELTA, 2003
Raczinsky D, C Serrano y M Valle: Eventos de quiebre de ingresos y mecanismos de
proteccin social Asesoras para el Desarrollo, 2002
Sesion 4: Analisis de la pobreza en la practica
Haughton, Jonathan and Shahidur R. Khandker. 2009. Chapter 7.
Poverty Assessments:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVER
TY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20210352~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618
~theSitePK:430367,00.html
Sesion 5: Genero, Etnicidad y Exclusion
Atal, Juan Pablo, Hugo opo and Natalia Winder, Gender and ethnic wage gaps in Latin
America and the Caribbean. An extensive review of the literature and contemporary estimates
for the region, Inter-American Development Bank, draft, June 2009.
Cunninghan, Wendy, and Joyce Jacobsen. 2004. Group-Based Inequalities: The Roles of Race,
Ethnicity, and Gender. In Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Breaking with
History?, coordinated by David De Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and
Michael
Walton.
Washington,
D.C:
World
Bank.
Chapter
3.http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/22/000160016_2004062214
1728/Rendered/PDF/28989.pdf .
*Marquez, Gustavo, Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryea, Jacqueline Mazza, and Hugo Nopo,
coordinators. 2007. 2008 Report: Outsiders? The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean.
Washington,
D.C:
IADB.
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1154386
Deere, Carmen Diana, Gina E. Alvarado, and Jennifer Twyman. 2010. Gender Inequality in
Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs. Household Heads. World Bank
Research Observer (WBRO).

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CEPAL. 2007. Cohesin social: inclusin y sentido de pertenencia en America Latina y el

Caribe.
Santiago
de
Chile:
CEPAL,
Naciones
Unidas.
http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/4/27814/2007-382-Cohesion_social-REV1-web.pdf,
(English version) ECLAC.2007. Social Cohesion
http://www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/xml/0/29030/2007-219-Social_Cohesion-web.pdf

Sesion 6: Desigualdad en America Latina

Sokoloff, Kenneth, and Joyce Robinson. 2004. Historical Roots of Inequality in Latin
America. In Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Breaking with History?
coordinated by David De Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Michael
Walton. Chapter 4. Washington , D. C: World Bank.
http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/22/000160016_2004062214
1728/Rendered/PDF/28989.pdf
Williamson, Jeffrey G. 2009. History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since
1491, NBER Working Paper Series, Working Paper 14766, March.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14766.
Engerman, Stanley and Kenneth L. Sokoloff .2005. Colonialism, Inequality and Long-Run
Paths to Development. Working Paper 11057. NBER (National Bureau of Economic
Research) Working Paper Series.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11057
Coatsworth, John Inequality, Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America,
Commentary, Journal of Latin American Studies 40, 545569, 2008 Cambridge University
Press 545
Sesion 7: September 27 Desigualdad en Perspectiva Comparada
Gasparini, Leonardo, Guillermo Cruces, Leopoldo Tornarolli and Mariana Marchioni. 2009. A
Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Working
Paper
no.
81
(February).
CEDLAS.
http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/cedlas/pdfs/doc_cedlas81.pdf
Lustig, Nora, Luis F. Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz. 2011. The Decline in Latin America:
How Much, Since When and Why? Tulane Economics Working Paper Series, Working Paper
1118.
New
Orleans,
LA:
Tulane
University,
April.
Available
online:
http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1118.pdf
OECD. Growth, Labour Market Developments and Income Inequality Trends in Brazil, China,
India and South Africa: What Role for Labour Market and Social Policies? Forthcoming.
Mitra, Pradeep and Ruslan Yemtsov. 2006. Increasing Inequality in Transition Economies: Is
There More to Come? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4007, September.
http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2006/09/14/000160016_2006091414
3004/Rendered/PDF/wps4007.pdf

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Alvaredo, Facundo and Thomas Piketty. 2010. The Dynamics of Income Concentration in
Developed and Developing Countries: A View from the Top. In Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and
Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress? Brookings
Institution Press and UNDP.
*Gasparini, Leonardo. 2004. Different Lives: Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Breaking with History?, coordinated by
David De Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Michael Walton. Chapter
2.Washington, D.C: World Bank.
http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/22/000160016_2004062214
1728/Rendered/PDF/28989.pdf .
Chaudhuri, Shubham and Martin Ravallion. 2007. Partially Awakened Giants: Uneven Growth
in China and India. In Dancing with Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy, edited by
L. Alan Winters and Shahid Yusuf. World Bank.
Gary Burtless. 2007. Globalization and income polarization in rich countries. Issues in
Economic Policy (April) no. 5. Brookings Institution.
Sesion 8: Determinantes de la pobreza y desigualdad
World Bank, World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty. (chapter 2)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVERTY/Resources/WDR/English-Full-TextReport/ch2.pdf
*Arias, Omar, Nora Lustig and Jamele Rigolini. 2002. Poverty Reduction and Economic
Growth: the Two-Way Causality, Inter-American Development Bank, Technical Papers Series,
February. http://www.iadb.org/sds/doc/GrowthIneqDualCaus.pdf
Winters, Alan L., Neil McCulloch and Andrew McKay. 2004. Trade Liberalization and
Poverty: The Evidence so Far, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 42,
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou and Nina Pavcnik. 2007. Distributional Effects of Globalization
in Developing Countries. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45, March, pp. 3982.
*Fiszbein, Ariel and Norbert Schady with Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Margaret Grosh, Nial
Kelleher, Pedro Olinto, and Emmanuel Skoufias. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers. Reducing
Present And Future Poverty, World Bank, Chapter 1.
Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe and Nora Lustig. 2010. Technological Change, Educational
Upgrading, Democracy and the Decline in Inequality in Latin America. In Lopez-Calva, Luis
F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress?
Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.
Robinson, James. 2010. The Political Economy of Redistributive Policies. In Lopez-Calva,
Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress?
Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.

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Perry, Guillermo, Humberto Lpez, Omar Arias, William Maloney, and Luis Servn. 2006.
Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles. Washington DC: World Bank.
Chapters 4-9.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTLACOFFICEOFCE/Resources/8708921139877599088/virtuous_circles1_complete.pdf
Kahhat, Jaime. 2010 Labor Earnings Inequality: The Demand for and Supply of Skills.
Chapter 2 in Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin
America: a Decade of Progress? Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.
De Ferranti, David, Guillermo Perry, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Michael Walton. 2004.
Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Breaking with History? World Bank. chapters 5
and 6.
McKenzie, David and Dilip Mookherjee. 2003. The Distributive Impact of Privatization in
Latin America: Evidence from Four Countries.Economia Journal of the Latin American and
Caribbean Economic Association 3, no. 2 (Spring): 161-233.
Levy, Santiago and Michael Walton. 2009. Equity, Competition, and Growth in Mexico: An
Overview. In No Growth without Equity? Inequality, Interests and Competition in Mexico,
edited by Santiago Levy and Michael Walton. Chapter 1. Palgrave Macmilland and the World
Bank.
*Breceda, Karla, Jamele Rigolini and Jaime Saavedra. 2008. Latin America and the Social
Contract: Patterns of Social Spending and Taxation. Working Paper #4606 (April). The World
Bank, Latin American & Caribbean Region, Poverty Department, Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Division.
http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2008/04/21/000158349_2008
0421090519/Rendered/PDF/WPS4604.pdf
Tommasi, Mariano. 2006. Institutional Foundations of Public Policy. Economia. Journal of
the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association 6 no. 2, Spring:1- 36.
Birdsall, Nancy, Augusto de la Torre and Rachel Menezes. 2008. Fair Growth: Economic
Policies for Latin Americas Poor and Middle Income Majority, Brookings Institution Press.
*Grosh, Margaret, Carlo del Ninno, Emil Tesliuc, and Azedine Ouerghi. 2008. The Design And
Implementation Of Effective Safety Nets, World Bank.
Huber, Evelyne, Francois Nielsen, Jenny Pribble and John D. Stephens. 2005. Politics and
Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Paper prepared for Annual Meetings of
Research
Committee
19.
Northwestern
University.
http://www.northwestern.edu/rc19/Huber_Nielsen_Pribble_Stephens.pdf
Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 2008. Development, Democracy and the Welfare
States. Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton University Press.
Kaufman, Robert and Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social
Spending In latin America A Time-series Cross-section Analysis, 197397, World Politics 53
(July 2001), 55387.

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Lustig, Nora, Poverty, Inequality and the New Left in Latin America, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, 2009.
De Ferranti, David, Guillermo Perry, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Michael Walton. 2004.
Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Breaking with History? World Bank. Part III.
ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean). 2006. Shaping the
Future of Social Protection: Access, Financing and Solidarity. Santiago, Chile: United Nations.
http://www.cepal.org/publicaciones/xml/0/24080/lcg2294i.pdf
Levy, Santiago. 2008. Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes. Social Policy Informality and Growth in
Mexico. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution. Introduction and chapter 10.
Pages, Carmen, Gaelle Pierr and Stefano Scarpetta. 2009. Job Creation in Latin America and
the Caribbean. Recent Trends and Policy Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan and the World Bank.
Overview and Part III.
Sesion 9: Politicas Anti-pobreza: El diseo de redes de Proteccin Social
Haughton, Jonathan and Shahidur R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, chapter 9.
Winters, Alan L., Neil McCulloch and Andrew McKay. 2004. Trade Liberalization and
Poverty: The Evidence so Far, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 42.
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou and Nina Pavcnik. 2007. Distributional Effects of Globalization
in Developing Countries. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 45, March, pp. 3982.
Verdier. Thierry. 2005. "Socially Responsible Trade Integration", in F. Bourguignon, B.
Pleskovic and A. Sapir (eds), Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference in Development
Economics, "Are we on Track to Achieve the Millenium Development Goals?", pp. 61-111, The
World Bank and Oxford University Press.
Fiszbein, Ariel and Norbert Schady with Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Margaret Grosh, Nial
Kelleher, Pedro Olinto, and Emmanuel Skoufias. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers. Reducing
Present and Future Poverty, World Bank. Overview chapter, pp. 1-27.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTCCT/Resources/5757608-1234228266004/PRRCCT_web_noembargo.pdf
Grosh, Margaret, Carlo del Ninno, Emil Tesliuc, and Azedine Ouerghi. 2008. The Design And
Implementation Of Effective Safety Nets, World Bank.
High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). 2012. Social protection
for food security, , United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS), June.
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/hlpe/hlpe_documents/HLPE_Reports/HLP E-Report4-Social_protection_for_food_security-June_2012.pdf
Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Carol Richards. 2006. Membership Based
Organizations of the Poor: Concepts, Experience and Policy, July. Also, SEWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awIYz6Is2ns
Sesion 10: Politica publica para la pobreza y la desigualdad en la practica

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Lustig, Nora. 2011. Commitment to Equity (CEQ): A Diagnostic and Ranking Tool of Latin
American Governments Fiscal Policies. Background Document, Inter-American Dialogue and
Tulane University/CIPR and Dept. of Economics, mimeo.
Haughton, Jonathan and Shahidur R. Khandker, Handbook on Poverty and Inequality, chapters
9 and 15.
Argentina, Chile, Mexico Peru y Brasil
Gasparini, Leonardo and Guillermo Cruces. 2010. A Distribution in Motion: The Case of
Argentina. In Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin
America: a Decade of Progress? Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.
CEDLAS (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS). 2004. Quines
se Benefician del Gasto Pblico Social en la Argentina? Un estudio de incidencia basado en la
ECV y la EPH.
Galasso, Emanuela, and Martin Ravallioni. 2003. Social Protection in a Crisis: Argentinas
Plan Jefes y Jefas. Policy Research Working Paper 3165. Washington: World Bank
Development Research Group.
Larragaa, Osvaldo. 2009. Inequality, Poverty and Social Policy: Recent Trends in Chile.
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers no. 85
Larranaga, Osvaldo, y Rodrigo Herrera. 2008. Los Recientes Cambios en la Desigualdad y la
Pobreza en Chile. Estudios Pblicos 109 (verano).
Soares, Sergei, Rafael Guerreiro Osrio, Fbio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros, and Eduardo
Zepeda. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon
Inequality. In Poverty and Inequality in Mexico and Selected Latin American and Caribbean
Countrie, edited by Nora Lustig and Jacques Silber. Estudios Econmicos, El Colegio de
Mxico numero extraordinario (febrero).
Gray, Molina. 2008. Bolivias Long and Winding Road. Andean Working Paper, July 2008.
Inter-American Dialogue.
Gray Molina, George and Ernesto Yaez. 2009. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Best and
Worst Times, Bolivia 1997-2007. Discussion paper prepared for the UNDP Project Markets,
the State and the Dynamics of Inequality: How to Advance Inclusive Growth, co-ordinated by
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva and Nora Lustig. (http://undp.economiccluster-lac.org/).
Jaramillo, Miguel y Jaime Saavedra. 2010. Inequality in Post-Structural Reform Peru: The
Role of Market and Policy Forces. In Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining
Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress? Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.
Maldonado, Stanislao and Vanessa Rios. 2006. Ms all de la igualdad de oportunidades:
Desigualdad de ingresos, responsabilidad individual y movilidad social en el Per. Informe
Final. CEDEP/ CIES.
Barros, Ricardo Paes de, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, and Rosane Mendona. 2010.
Markets, the State, and the Dynamics of Inequality in Brazil.
In Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.) Declining Inequality in Latin America: a
Decade of Progress? Brookings Institution Press and UNDP.

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Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Phillipe G. Leite and Julie A. Litchfield. 2007. The Rise and Fall of
Brazilian Inequality: 1981-2004. Macroeconomic Dynamics (June): 1-32.
Esquivel, Gerardo, Nora Lustig, and John Scott. 2010. A Decade of Falling Inequality in
Mexico: Market Forces or State Action? In Lopez-Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig (eds.)
Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress? Brookings Institution Press and
UNDP.
Legovini, Arianna, Csar Bouilln and Nora Lustig. 2005. Can Education Explain Changes in
Income Inequality in Mexico? In The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in
East Asia and Latin America, edited by Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and
Nora Lustig. Washington, D.C: Oxford University Press. Chapter 8.

Sesion 11: Focalizacion y Provision

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Requirements in Poverty-Alleviation Programs, American Economic Review, Vol. 82, N1,
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desarrollo. Revisin de la experiencia y lecciones de poltica, caps 2 y 4, IFPRI and The World
Bank, Washingron DC, 2004.
Larraaga O: Pensin bsica solidaria, Informe Tips 5; Departamento de Economa, U de
Chile, 2007
Ellwood, D: Anti poverty policies for families in the next century, From welfare to work and
worries, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000
Lindert, K, E Skoufias and J Shapiro: How effectively do public transfers in Latin America
redistribute income?, Lacea Working Paper, 2005
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