Understanding poverty /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of 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 ArmendaÌriz 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.