Understanding poverty /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit V., Benabou, Roland, Mookherjee, Dilip
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
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.