O Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

摘要

Considers methods of measuring the level of inequality of opportunity in Latin America. Discusses inequality of opportunity-what it is, how it can be measured, and why it matters; a Human Opportunity Index for children; uses and policy applications of the Human Opportunity Index; inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin American countries; and inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in five Latin American countries. De Barros is a researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada. Ferreira is Lead Economist with the Development Research Group at the World Bank.