Edited by Rob Vos, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), US, Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, New School University, New York, US and Ricardo Paes de Barros, Director of Social Studies, Institute of Applied Economic Studies (IPEA), Brazil

'. . . this volume provides an excellent, carefully argued study that grounds its reasoning in both detailed country-specific narratives as well as rigorous and innovative empirical work. Its array of findings should be of great interest to all those concerned with the welfare outcomes of liberalizing policy reform.'

• Contents:Preface 1 Balance of payments liberalization in Latin America: effects on growth, distribution and povertyLance Taylor and Rob Vos2 Labour market adjustment, poverty and inequality during liberalization Enrique Ganuza, Ricardo Paes de Barros and Rob Vos3 Argentina: macroeconomic behaviour, employment and income distribution in the 1990s Roberto Frenkel and Martín González Rozada4 Brazil: economic opening and income distribution Ricardo Paes de Barros and Carlos Henrique Corseuil5 Chile: trade liberalization, employment and inequality José de Gregorio, Dante Contreras, David Bravo, Tomas Rau and Sergio Urzua6 Colombia: structural change, labour market adjustment and income distribution in the 1990s José Antonio Ocampo, Fabio Sánchez and Camilo Ernesto Tovar7 Ecuador: economic liberalization, adjustment and poverty, 1988–99 Rob Vos8 El Salvador: balance-of-payments liberalization, remittances, employment and poverty Alexander Segovia and Jeannette Larde9 Mexico: trade liberalization, growth, inequality and poverty Jaime Ros and César Bouillon10 Peru: stabilization, liberalization and inequality Juan José Díaz, Jaime Saavedra and Máximo ToreroIndex

Edited by Rob Vos, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), US, Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, New School University, New York, US and Ricardo Paes de Barros, Director of Social Studies, Institute of Applied Economic Studies (IPEA), Brazil

'. . . this volume provides an excellent, carefully argued study that grounds its reasoning in both detailed country-specific narratives as well as rigorous and innovative empirical work. Its array of findings should be of great interest to all those concerned with the welfare outcomes of liberalizing policy reform.'

• Contents:Preface 1 Balance of payments liberalization in Latin America: effects on growth, distribution and povertyLance Taylor and Rob Vos2 Labour market adjustment, poverty and inequality during liberalization Enrique Ganuza, Ricardo Paes de Barros and Rob Vos3 Argentina: macroeconomic behaviour, employment and income distribution in the 1990s Roberto Frenkel and Martín González Rozada4 Brazil: economic opening and income distribution Ricardo Paes de Barros and Carlos Henrique Corseuil5 Chile: trade liberalization, employment and inequality José de Gregorio, Dante Contreras, David Bravo, Tomas Rau and Sergio Urzua6 Colombia: structural change, labour market adjustment and income distribution in the 1990s José Antonio Ocampo, Fabio Sánchez and Camilo Ernesto Tovar7 Ecuador: economic liberalization, adjustment and poverty, 1988–99 Rob Vos8 El Salvador: balance-of-payments liberalization, remittances, employment and poverty Alexander Segovia and Jeannette Larde9 Mexico: trade liberalization, growth, inequality and poverty Jaime Ros and César Bouillon10 Peru: stabilization, liberalization and inequality Juan José Díaz, Jaime Saavedra and Máximo ToreroIndex