Poverty and Inequality

 Income Dynamics, Mobility and Welfare in Developing Countries
Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, and William Maloney (2006)

The Urban Poor in Latin America
Marianne Fay, editor (2005)

 Pending Issues in Protection, Productivity Growth, and Poverty Reduction
LAC Labor Team, (2004)

 Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History?
David de Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Fracisco Ferreira, Michael Walton (2003)

 Accountability and Corruption: Political Institutions Matter
Daniel Lederman, N. Loayza and R. Soares, re-submitted for publication, Economics and Politics (forthcoming) 250K PDF

 The Dynamics of Poverty and its Determinants: the Case of Northeast of Brazil and its States
D. Verner and N. Fiess, Policy Research Working Paper 3259 (2004)

Inequality and Violent Crime
Daniel Lederman Norman Loayza and Pablo Fajnzylber
Journal of Law and Economics, 45, 1, 1-40, 2002

 Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform
Antonio Estache, Vivien Foster, and Quentin Wodon, 2002 (6066K PDF)

Making Infrastructure Reform Work for the Poor (515K PDF)

Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America
Nancy Birdsall and Augusto de la Torre
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Inter-American Dialogue, 2001

 Growth and Poverty Reduction: Policies and Institutions for a Globalized Economy August 10, 2001, Sao Paulo, Brazil s

Policy Options for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: Can Micro-Simultations Help?, by F. Ferreira and P. Leite

Social Security Reforms in Latin America

Backgroung papers
Improving Mandatory Saving Programs, by S. Valdes-Prieto (378 KB PDF)
Is There a Positive Incentive Effect from Privatizing Social Security? Evidence from Latin America, by T. Packard (600 KB PDF)
Justifying Mandatory Savings for Old Age, by S. Valdes-Prieto (358 KB PDF)
 The Mexican Defined Contribution Pension System: Perspective for Low Income Workers, by O. Azuara (897 KB PDF)
 Pension Reform in Bolivia: A Review of Approach and Experience, by Escobar (287 KB PDF)
 Pension Reform and Capital Market Development, by J. Yermo (662 KB PDF)
 Pension Reform or Pension Default? A Note on Pension Reorm and Country Risk, by N. Fiess (288KB PDF)
The Pension System and the Crisis in Argentina: Learning the Lessons, by R. Rofman (421 KB PDF)
The Performance of Funded Pension Systems in Latin America, by J. Yermo (1.35 MB PDF)
Pooling, Savings, and Prevention: Mitigating the Risk of Old Age Poverty in Chile, by T. Packard (1.7 MB PDF)
 Preferences, Constraints, and Substitutes for Coverage Under Peru's Pension System, by A. Barr and T. Packard
The Reach of Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean, by T. Packard, N. Shinkai, and R. Fuentes (1.3 MB PDF)
Revealed Preference and Self-insurance: Can We Learn from the Self-employed in Chile?, by A. Barr and T. Packard (75.2 KB PDF)
 A Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Gained?, by A. Zviniene and T. Packard (855 KB PDF)
Social Security Coverage in Chile, 1990-2001, by S. Valdes-Prieto (1019 KB PDF)