Poverty, Income Growth and Inequality in Paraguay During the 1990s

The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and inequality over a period of more than ten years can shed new light on structural causes behind what seems to be a low growth high poverty high inequality trap in Paraguay. How did poverty and inequality change during the 1990s. Did inequality reduce income growth? What were the growth determinants and what are the main forces driving inequality changes? These are the questions being answered in this book.

Autorentext
The Author: Thomas Otter is a researcher associated to the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research of the University of Göttingen (Germany). He holds a doctorate in economics from the same university. The author has worked as a consultant for different development agencies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. His research interests include pro-poor growth, inequality, and human development.

Inhalt
Contents: Spatial distribution of poverty and inequality and their changes over a decade Case study from Latin America Growth determinants Inequality decomposition Downstream regressions Poverty maps.