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  • Left Behind

    Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Renos Vakis, Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

    by Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo, Renos Vakis, Luis Felipe Ló, Renos pez-Calva, Vakis ...
    Series series Latin America and Caribbean Studies
    After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Left Behind

    Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Renos Vakis, Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Economics and Consumer Behavior

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management

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  • The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution

    by Samuel Bowles ...
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  • The Right People

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    An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd"It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for ... Read more

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  • CITY OF WOMEN

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  • Overcoming Bias

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