II Meeting of the LACEA/IDB/WB
Research Network on Inequality and Poverty

Santiago, Chile
October 22th, 1999
Universidad de Chile

Agenda


Session I : "Shocks, Policy Reforms and Income Distribution" 

Samuel Morley

"The Income Distribution Problem in Latin America"

Suzanne Duryea

"Children's Advancement Through School in Brazil: The Role of Transitory Shocks to Household Income"

Arianna Legovini and Nora Lustig

"Poverty and Shocks in Latin America"

Inder Ruprah

"Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty in Venezuela"


Session II : "Institutional Arrangements for Service Provision to the Poor" 

Omar Chisari

"Universal Service Obligations in Utilities"

Daniel Cotlaer

"The Provision of Health Services in Peru"

Mizala Romaguera

"Determinants of Educational Performance in Bolivia"


Session III : "The Political Economy of Inequality and Exclusion" 


Daron Acemoglu and Jim Robinson

"Political Origins of Poverty and Prosperity"

Carlos Winograd and Rudiger Ahrend

"Mass Privatizations and Imperfect Taxation: The Political Economy of Changing Coalitions"

José Gómez de León, Daniel Hernández and Susan Parker

"Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Mexico: The Impact of the Education, Health and Nutrition Program (PROGRESA)"