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Review of “Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean” by Ricardo Paes de Barros, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, José R. Molinas Vega, and Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi , World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Peragine, V. Review of “Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean” by Ricardo Paes de Barros, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, José R. Molinas Vega, and Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi , World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. J Econ Inequal 9, 137–143 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9151-2

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