Measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean / Ricardo Paes de Barros ... [and others].
Material type: TextSeries: Latin American development forum | World Bank e-LibraryPublisher: Washington DC : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : World Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan ; [2009]Copyright date: copyright 2009Description: xxiii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
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- Children -- Government policy -- Caribbean Area
- Children -- Government policy -- Latin America
- Equality -- Caribbean Area
- Equality -- Latin America
- Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
- Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-
- 330.98 22
- HC125 .M38 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inequality of opportunity : what it is, how it can be measured, and why it matters -- A human opportunity index for children -- Uses and policy applications of the human opportunity index -- Inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin American countries -- Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in five Latin American countries.
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