The Microeconomics Of Income Distribution Dynamics In East Asia And Latin America

by François Bourguignon; Francisco H. G. Ferreira; Nora Lustig

• ISBN13: 9780821358610
• ISBN10: 0821358618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

This book is about how the distribution of income changes during the process of income development. Understanding development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows but also how its distribution behaves over time. The authors propose a decomposition of differences in entire distributions of household incomes, shedding new light on the powerful, and often conflicting, forces that underpin the changes in poverty and inequality that accompany the process of economic development. This approach is applied to three East Asian countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, and China -- and to four in Latin America -- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

Author Biography

Vivi Alatas: Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Region at the World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia Cesar Bouillon: Economist in the Poverty and Inequality Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. Francois Bourguignon: Senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, Washington, D.C. Walter Sosa Escudero: Professor of econometrics at the Universidad de los Andes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; researcher at Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata Francisco H. G. Ferreira: Senior economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank, Washington, D.C. Gary S. Fields: Professor of labor economics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Martin Fournier: Researcher at the Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine (CEFC), Hong Kong, China, and associate professor at the Universite d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France Leonardo Gasparini: Director of CEDLAS, as well as professor of economics of income distribution and professor of labor economics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Marc Gurgand: Researcher at the Department et Laboratoire d'Economie Theorique et Appliquee (DELTA) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France Adriana Kugler: Associate professor of economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, and assistant professor of economics at the University of Houston, Texas Arianna Legovini: Senior monitoring and evaluation specialist in the Africa Region at the World Bank, Washington, D.C. Jose Leibovich: Assistant director of the Departamento Nacional de Planeacion (Department of National Planning), Bogota, Colombia Nora Lustig: President of the Universidad de Las Americas, Puebla, Mexico Mariana Marchionni: Professor of econometrics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and researcher at CEDLAS Jairo Nunez: Researcher at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Ricardo Paes de Barros: Researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sergei Soares: Senior education economist in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., and researcher at IPEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Carlos Eduardo Velez: Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xvii
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xix
1 Introduction	1	(16)
François Bourguignon, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, and Nora Lustig
2 Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes: Methodological Aspects	17	(30)
François Bourguignon and Francisco H.G. Ferreira
3 Characterization of Inequality Changes through Microeconometric Decompositions: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires	47	(36)
Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni, and Walter Sosa Escudero
4 The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-96	83	(42)
Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Ricardo Paes de Barros
5 The Reversal of Inequality Trends in Colombia, 1978-95: A Combination of Persistent and Fluctuating Forces	125	(50)
Carlos Eduardo Vélez, José Leibovich, Adriana Kugler, César Bouillón, and Jairo Núñez
6 The Evolution of Income Distribution during Indonesia's Fast Growth, 1980-96	175	(44)
Vivi Alatas and François Bourguignon
7 The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia	219	(56)
Gary S. Fields and Sergei Soares
8 Can Education Explain Changes in Income Inequality in Mexico?	275	(38)
Arianna Legovini, César Bouillón, and Nora Lustig
9 Distribution, Development, and Education in 'Taiwan, China, 1979-94	313	(44)
François Bourguignon, Martin Fournier, and Marc Gurgand
10 A Synthesis of the Results	357	(50)
François Bourguignon, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, and Nora Lustig
Index	407