Understanding poverty
Understanding poverty
- New York Oxford University Press 2006.
- lii,443p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Measuring poverty / Understanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / The Kuznets curve: yesterday and tomorrow / New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Globalization and all that / The global economy and the poor / The role of agriculture in development / Fertility and income / Fertility in developing countries / Corruption and development / Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Transfers and safety nets in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Child labor / Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / The primacy of education / Public goods and economic development / Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Microinsurance: the next revolution? / Credit, intermediation, and overty reduction / Poor but rational? / Better choices to reduce poverty / Nonmarket institutions / Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.] -- Angus Deaton -- Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.] -- Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Thomas Piketty -- Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion -- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee -- Pranab Bardhan -- Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal -- T. Paul Schultz -- Mukesh Eswaran -- Jean-Jacques Laffont -- Edward Miguel -- Emmanuel Saez -- Martin Ravallion -- Dilip Mookherjee -- Christopher Udry -- Kaushik Basu -- Anne Case -- Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak -- Jean Tirole -- Michael Kremer -- Jonathan Morduch -- Robert M. Townsend -- Esther Duflo -- Sendhil Mullainathan -- Kaivan Munshi -- Glenn C. Loury -- Debraj Ray. Introduction and overview / PART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY -- PART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY? -- PART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY --
9780195305203
2005018492
GBA624764 bnb
013408393 Uk
Poverty.
Poor.
HC79.P6 / U533 2006
362.5 / UN-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Measuring poverty / Understanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / The Kuznets curve: yesterday and tomorrow / New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Globalization and all that / The global economy and the poor / The role of agriculture in development / Fertility and income / Fertility in developing countries / Corruption and development / Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Transfers and safety nets in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Child labor / Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / The primacy of education / Public goods and economic development / Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Microinsurance: the next revolution? / Credit, intermediation, and overty reduction / Poor but rational? / Better choices to reduce poverty / Nonmarket institutions / Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.] -- Angus Deaton -- Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.] -- Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Thomas Piketty -- Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion -- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee -- Pranab Bardhan -- Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal -- T. Paul Schultz -- Mukesh Eswaran -- Jean-Jacques Laffont -- Edward Miguel -- Emmanuel Saez -- Martin Ravallion -- Dilip Mookherjee -- Christopher Udry -- Kaushik Basu -- Anne Case -- Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak -- Jean Tirole -- Michael Kremer -- Jonathan Morduch -- Robert M. Townsend -- Esther Duflo -- Sendhil Mullainathan -- Kaivan Munshi -- Glenn C. Loury -- Debraj Ray. Introduction and overview / PART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY -- PART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY? -- PART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY --
9780195305203
2005018492
GBA624764 bnb
013408393 Uk
Poverty.
Poor.
HC79.P6 / U533 2006
362.5 / UN-