Understanding poverty / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Benabou, Dilip Mookherjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

1961- Banerjee., author.

Benabou, Roland, author.

Mookherjee, Dilip, author.

Contributor:

Abhijit V..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together essays by 34 leading economists about important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. These essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for vaccines.

Contents:

Introduction and overview / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.]

Measuring poverty / Angus Deaton

PART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY

Understanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.]

Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff

The Kuznets curve: yesterday and tomorrow / Thomas Piketty

New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion

Globalization and all that / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

The global economy and the poor / Pranab Bardhan

The role of agriculture in development / Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal

Fertility and income / T. Paul Schultz

Fertility in developing countries / Mukesh Eswaran

Corruption and development / Jean-Jacques Laffont

Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Edward Miguel

PART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY?

Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Emmanuel Saez

Transfers and safety nets in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Martin Ravallion

Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Dilip Mookherjee

Child labor / Christopher Udry

Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / Kaushik Basu

The primacy of education / Anne Case

Public goods and economic development / Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak

Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Jean Tirole

Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Michael Kremer

Microinsurance: the next revolution? / Jonathan Morduch

Credit, intermediation, and overty reduction / Robert M. Townsend

PART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY

Poor but rational? / Esther Duflo

Better choices to reduce poverty / Sendhil Mullainathan

Nonmarket institutions / Kaivan Munshi

Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Glenn C. Loury

Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Debraj Ray.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611163044

1-281-16304-X

1-4294-1446-4

0-19-530519-1

0-19-804153-5

OCLC:

922953946