Understanding Poverty

Name: Understanding Poverty
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ISBN: 9780195305203

ISBN-10: 0195305205

ISBN-13: 9780195305203

Edition: 2006

Authors: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Benabou, Dilip Mookherjee, Roland Bï¿½nabou

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Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of "excessive" population…

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics in the department of economics at MIT, a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and a past president of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is the author mostrecently of The Crisis in Government Accountability: Governance Reforms and Indian EconomicPerformance.



Introduction




Measuring Poverty




The Causes of Poverty



Understanding Prosperityand Poverty: Geography, Institutions, and the Reversal of Fortune




Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths Of Development




The Kuznets Curve: Yesterday and Tomorrow




A 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




How Should We Go About Fighting Poverty?



Redistribution toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries




Transfers and Safety Nets in Poor Countries: Revisitingthe 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 Poverty Reduction




New Ways of Thinking About Poverty



Poor but Rational?




Better Choices to Reduce Poverty




Nonmarket Institutions




Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory




Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change