Social exclusion and mobility in Brazil

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2008

Social exclusion and mobility in Brazil.

Ed. by Estanislao Gacitua Mario and Michael Woolcock.

The World Bank

2008

133 pages

$35.00

Paperback

HN290

Mario and Woolcock (social development and social scientists with the World Bank) present a study that considers forms of social exclusion that affect socioeconomic mobility in Brazil. The study examines ways to reduce inequality and offers recommendations to policy makers based on a careful look at income dynamics over a 20-year period; factors such as ethnicity, education, gender, occupation, and location that affect poverty; and related cultural values, including how social groups perceive inequality. They draw on data from Brazilian National Household Surveys, the International Social Survey Programme, pseudo-panels, and qualitative fieldwork, among other information. The book is a product of the World Bank and the Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada. Contributors are associated with the institute and others, the World Bank, or are professors of sociology, economics, and political science in Brazil.

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