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Understanding Poverty

by: Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak; Benabou, Roland; Mookherjee, Dilip

Understanding Poverty

by: Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak; Benabou, Roland; Mookherjee, Dilip

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Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 04/20/2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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

Contributors

Introduction and Overview,

xiii

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, and Dilip Mookherjee

1. Measuring Poverty,

(14)

Angus Deaton

Part I The Causes of Poverty

(168)

2. Understanding Prosperity and Poverty: Geography, Institutions, and the Reversal of Fortune,

(18)

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson

3. Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development,

(26)

Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff

4. The Kuznets Curve: Yesterday and Tomorrow,

(10)

Thomas Piketty

5. New Growth Approach to Poverty Alleviation,

(12)

Philippe Aghion & Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion

6. Globalization and All That,

(14)

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

7. The Global Economy and the Poor,

(12)

Pranab Bardhan

8. The Role of Agriculture in Development,

111

(14)

Mukesh Eswaran & Ashok Kotwal

9. Fertility and Income,

125

(18)

T. Paul Schultz

10. Fertility in Developing Countries,

143

(18)

Mukesh Eswaran

11. Corruption and Development,

161

(8)

Jean-Jacques Laffont

12. Ethnic Diversity and Poverty Reduction,

169

(18)

Edward Miguel

Part II How Should We Go About Fighting Poverty?

185

(180)

13. Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries,

187

(16)

Emmanuel Saez

14. Transfers and Safety Nets in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options,

203

(28)

Martin Rovallion

15. Poverty Persistence and Design of Antipoverty Policies,

231

(12)

Dilip Mookherjee

16. Child Labor,

243

(16)

Christopher Udry

17. Policy Dilemmas for Controlling Child Labor,

259

(10)

Kaushik Basu

18. The Primacy of Education,

269

(16)

Anne Case

19. Public Goods and Economic Development,

285

(18)

Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak

20. Intellectual Property and Health in Developing Countries,

303

(16)

Jean Tirole

21. Public Policies to Stimulate Development of Vaccines for Neglected Diseases,

319

(18)

Michael Kremer

22. Microinsurance: The Next Revolution?

337

(20)

Jonathan Morduch

23. Credit, Intermediation, and Poverty Reduction,

357

(10)

Robert M. Townsend

Part III New Ways of Thinking about Poverty

365

(58)

24. Poor but Rational?

367

(12)

Esther Duflo

25. Better Choices to Reduce Poverty,

379

(10)

Sendhil Mullainathan

26. Nonmarket Institutions,

389

(12)

Kaivan Munshi

27. Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory,

401

(8)

Glenn C. Loury

28. Aspirations, Poverty, and Economic Change,

409

(14)

Debraj Ray

Index

423

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