CEPAL Review Nº108

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COMISIÓN ECONÓMICA PARA AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE

REVIEW

Miguel Torres Technical Editor

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CEPAL REVIEW

André Hofman Director

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EDITORIAL BOARD

DECEMBER • 2012

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Overcoming the “empty box syndrome”. Determinants of income distribution in Latin America 7

Ivonne González and Ricardo Martner

Free trade agreements in Latin America since 1990: an evaluation of export diversification 27

Alfonso Dingemans and César Ross

Ecuador: defining and measuring multidimensional poverty, 2006-2010 49

Andrés Mideros M.

The biodiesel market and public policy: a comparative analysis of Argentina and Brazil Georges Gérard Flexor, Karina Yoshie Martins Kato and Marina Yesica Recalde

69

Production structure of the services sector in countries at different development levels Kênia Barreiro de Souza, Suzana Quinet de Andrade Bastos and Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli

87

Keynesian economic policies: reflections on the Brazilian economy, 1995-2009 111

Fábio Henrique Bittes Terra and Fernando Ferrari Filho

Enterprise creation and economic recovery: the case of Rio Grande do Sul 127

Mario Duarte Canever and André Carraro

The health insurance market: lessons on the conflict between equivalence and solidarity Andras Uthoff, José Miguel Sánchez and Rolando Campusano

141

Chile’s new middle classes: a cohort analysis 161

Oscar Mac-Clure

Distributional effects of eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in Chile Claudio A. Agostini, Claudia Martínez A. and Barbara Flores

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN United Nations Publication • E1200645 • December 2012 • ISSN 0251-2920 • e-ISBN 978-92-1-055947-8 Copyright © United Nations 2012 • Printed in Santiago, Chile

ISSN 0251-2920


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