J Humberto López
Biographic Data
| ID | 6454399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Humberto López |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Humberto |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Guatemala
This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) looks at why a country with such great potential has not been able to materialize it. The SCD analysis has identified several knowledge gaps. The analysis in this report focuses on the 2000 to 2014 period, covering the boom years before 2008 and the global financial crisis and recovery years up to 2014. It is based on a rich household data set from the National Living Standards Measurement Survey (ENCOVI) …
Panama
Panama has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent years, progress that compares positively to that of the rest of the Latin America and Caribbean region. This report takes stock of this progress and reflects on the constraints and opportunities that Panama faces in continuing on its path of shared prosperity and poverty reduction. The education and skills agenda, energy, public sector reform, the inclusion of indigenous peoples, …
Fiscal Redistribution and Income Inequality in Latin America
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
Fiscal Redistribution And Income Inequality In Latin America
Income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends on the redistributive capacity of the state. This paper documents the performance of Latin American fiscal systems from the perspective of income redistribution using newly-available info…
Remittances and Development
Chapter 5 Remittances and development 105 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inequality In Latin America
Latin America is together with Sub-Saharan Africa the most unequal region of the world. This paper documents recent inequality trends in the Latin American region, going beyond traditional measures of income inequality. The paper also reviews some of the explanations that have been put forward to understand the current situation, and discusses why reducing income inequality should be an important policy priority. In particular, the authors discus…
The Impact Of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital
This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty le…
A Normal Relationship ? Poverty, Growth, And Inequality
Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The 0 hypothesis that per capita income follows a lognormal distribution cannot be rejected-although the same hypothesis is unambiguously rejected when applied to per capita consumpt…
Poverty Reduction and Growth
No AccessWorld Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies1 Feb 2013Poverty Reduction and GrowthVirtuous and Vicious CirclesAuthors/Editors: Guillermo E. Perry, J. Humberto Lopez, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Luis ServenGuillermo E. Perry, J. Humberto Lopez, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Luis Servenhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6511-3SectionsAboutPDF (4.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinke…
Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor
"Is a pro-growth strategy always the best pro-poor strategy? To address this issue, Lopez provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large macroeconomic data set and estimate dynamic panel models that allows him to differentiate between the short- and long-run impacts of the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findi…
How Effective is Fiscal Policy in Raising National Saving
While fiscal adjustment is commonly viewed as the cornerstone of macroeconomic stabilization, the effectiveness of alternative fiscal instruments in raising national saving is still poorly understood. This paper enters the debate by estimating a private consumption function that allows for two types of agents—finite horizons and liquidity constraints—and nests three different consumption hypotheses. Using a large-panel data set that includes both…
How Effective is Fiscal Policy in Raising National Saving
While fiscal adjustment is commonly viewed as the cornerstone of macroeconomic stabilization, the effectiveness of alternative fiscal instruments in raising national saving is still poorly understood. This paper enters the debate by estimating a private consumption function that allows for two types of agents—finite horizons and liquidity constraints—and nests three different consumption hypotheses. Using a large-panel data set that includes both…
Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor
"Is a pro-growth strategy always the best pro-poor strategy? To address this issue, Lopez provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large macroeconomic data set and estimate dynamic panel models that allows him to differentiate between the short- and long-run impacts of the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findi…
A Normal Relationship ? Poverty, Growth, And Inequality
Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The 0 hypothesis that per capita income follows a lognormal distribution cannot be rejected-although the same hypothesis is unambiguously rejected when applied to per capita consumpt…
Poverty Reduction and Growth
No AccessWorld Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies1 Feb 2013Poverty Reduction and GrowthVirtuous and Vicious CirclesAuthors/Editors: Guillermo E. Perry, J. Humberto Lopez, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Luis ServenGuillermo E. Perry, J. Humberto Lopez, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Luis Servenhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6511-3SectionsAboutPDF (4.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinke…
The Impact Of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital
This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty le…
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
Fiscal Redistribution And Income Inequality In Latin America
Income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends on the redistributive capacity of the state. This paper documents the performance of Latin American fiscal systems from the perspective of income redistribution using newly-available info…
Remittances and Development
Chapter 5 Remittances and development 105 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inequality In Latin America
Latin America is together with Sub-Saharan Africa the most unequal region of the world. This paper documents recent inequality trends in the Latin American region, going beyond traditional measures of income inequality. The paper also reviews some of the explanations that have been put forward to understand the current situation, and discusses why reducing income inequality should be an important policy priority. In particular, the authors discus…
Fiscal Redistribution and Income Inequality in Latin America
Panama
Panama has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent years, progress that compares positively to that of the rest of the Latin America and Caribbean region. This report takes stock of this progress and reflects on the constraints and opportunities that Panama faces in continuing on its path of shared prosperity and poverty reduction. The education and skills agenda, energy, public sector reform, the inclusion of indigenous peoples, …
Guatemala
This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) looks at why a country with such great potential has not been able to materialize it. The SCD analysis has identified several knowledge gaps. The analysis in this report focuses on the 2000 to 2014 period, covering the boom years before 2008 and the global financial crisis and recovery years up to 2014. It is based on a rich household data set from the National Living Standards Measurement Survey (ENCOVI) …
Economics (9 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Income distribution (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Poverty (5 works)