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

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 11th, 2000
Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Agenda


The Social Impact of Crime

Francois Bourguignon and Andrew Morrison: "Measuring the Social Costs of Crime and Violence: A Methodological Primer

Fabio Sanchez and Jairo Nunez "Crime and Income Distribution in Colombia: A 20 Year History" (project's initial results) 

Renata Villoro and Graciela Teruel "The Social Cost of Crime in Mexico" (project's initial results) 


The Economics of Child Labor:

Sonya Bhalotra "Is Child Labor Necessary?

Lopez Calva "A Social Stigma Model of Child Labor"

J. Gomez de Leon and S. Parker "The Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs on Children's Time Use: The Case of Progresa in Mexico"

Lopez Calva and Freije "Child Labor and Poverty In Venezuela And Mexico" (project's initial results) 


Targeting the Poor and Evaluating Results

Gwendolyn Alexander "Microfinance in the 21st Century: How New Lending Methodologies May Influence Who We Reach and the Impact that We Have on the Poor"

Ricardo Cossa "Determinants of Schooling Attainment in Argentina: An Empirical Analysis with Extensions to Policy Evaluation" (tables / figures)

Mauricio León Guzmán, Wladymir Brborich, Rob Vos "Bono Solidario: ¿Compensación Social o Lucha Contra la Pobreza?" (project's initial results) 

Javier Herrera and Vilma Sandoval "Poverty Dynamics in Peru" (project's initial results) 

Joseph P. Kaboski "A Theory of Growth and the Returns to Schooling with Rising Educational Attainment"


Roundtable Discussion:

The Network on Inequality and Poverty and its Future Research Agenda


Social and Economic Mobility

Samuel Freije "Income, Positional and Poverty Dynamics in Venezuela"


Distributional Implications of Macroeconomic and Trade Policies

Chair: Nora Lustig

Damien King and Sudhanshu Handa "The Welfare Effects of BoP Reform: A Macro-Micro Simulation with Application to Jamaica"

Jan Hansen "Is Intra-Industrial Trade to Blame for Rising Inequality?"

Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Liliana Mesa González's "Trade Liberalization or SBTC? Evidence on Inequality from Mexico and Brazil" (project's initial results) 

David Bravo, Dante Contreras, Tomás Rau and Sergio Urzúa "Income Distribution in Chile 1990-1998: Learning from Microeconomic Simulations"