Titulo de la conferencia: Inequality-reducing growth in Latin America

Foreword / Michael Armacost and Enrique V. Iglesias -- Virtuos circles in Latin America`s second stage of reform / Nancy Birsdall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot -- Kinds and causes of inequality in Latin America / John Sheahan and Enrique V. Iglesias -- Structural reforms and equity / Eduardo Lora and Juan Luis Londoño -- Growth with equity: the volatility connection / Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann -- No tradeoff: efficient growth via more equal human capital Nancy Birdsall and Juan Luis Londoño -- Inequality-reducing growth in agriculture: a market-friendly policy agenda / Michael R. Carter and Jonathan Coles -- Economic policy and labor market dynamics / Rene Cortazar, Nora Lustig, and Sabot -- Equity benefits from financial market reforms / Liliana Rojas-Suarez, and Steven R. Weisbrod -- Pension reform: an efficiency-equity tradeoff? / Estelle James -- Reforming public monopolies: water supply / Raquel and John Briscoe -- Inequality and growth: implications for public finance and lessons from experience in the United States / Joseph Stiglitz -- The political economy of institutional reform in Latin America / Carol Graham and Moises Naim

"The essays in this book propose new ways of reducing inequality, not by growth-inhibiting transfers and regulations, but by enhancing efficiency--eliminating consumption subsidies for the wealthy, increasing the productivity of the poor, and shifting to a more labor-and-skill-demanding growth path ... [They] draw on discussions at a conference sponsored by the IDB and the MacArthur Foundation, titled "Inequality-Reducing Growth in Latin America," held in Washington, D.C. in January 1997"--prol.