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Understanding poverty.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.Edition: Edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip MookherjeeDescription: lii, 443 páginas : gráficas, tablas ; 23 cmContent type:
  • Texto
Media type:
  • Sin mediación
Carrier type:
  • Volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780195305203
  • 9780195305197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5  U53 21
Other classification:
  • I30
Contents:
Introduction and overview / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherje ; 1. Measuring poverty / Angus Deaton -- Part I: The causes of poverty ; 2. Understanding prosperity and poverty : geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson ; 3. Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff ; 4. The kusnets curve: yesterday and tomorrow / Thomas Piketty ; 5. New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion ; 6. Globalization and all that / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ; 7. The global economy and the poor / Pranab Bardhan ; 8. The role of agriculture in development / Mukesh Eswaran,Ashok Kotwal ; 9. Fertility and income / T. Paul Schultz ; 10. Fertility in developing countries / Mukesh Eswaran ; 10. Corruption and development / Jean-Jacques Laffont ; 12. Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Edward Miguel -- Part II: How should we go about fighting poverty? ; 13. Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Emmanuel Saez ; 14. Transfers and safety nets in poor countries : revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Martin Ravallion ; 15. Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Dilip Mookherjee ; 16. Chile labor / Christopher Udry ; 17. Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / Kaushik Basu ; 18. The primacy of education / Anne Case ; 19. Public goods and economic development / Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak ; 20. Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Jean Tirole ; 21. Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Michael Kremer ; 22. Microinsurance : the next revolution? / Jonathan Morduch ; 23. Credit, intermediation, and poverty reduction / Robert M. Townsend -- Part III: New ways of thinking about poverty ; 24. Poor but rational? / Esther Duflo ; 25. Better choices to reduce poverty / Sendhil Mullainathan ; 26. Nonmarket institutions / Kaivan Munshi ; 27. Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Glenn C. Loury ; 28. Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Debraj Ray.
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Introduction and overview / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherje ; 1. Measuring poverty / Angus Deaton -- Part I: The causes of poverty ; 2. Understanding prosperity and poverty : geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson ; 3. Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff ; 4. The kusnets curve: yesterday and tomorrow / Thomas Piketty ; 5. New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion ; 6. Globalization and all that / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ; 7. The global economy and the poor / Pranab Bardhan ; 8. The role of agriculture in development / Mukesh Eswaran,Ashok Kotwal ; 9. Fertility and income / T. Paul Schultz ; 10. Fertility in developing countries / Mukesh Eswaran ; 10. Corruption and development / Jean-Jacques Laffont ; 12. Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Edward Miguel -- Part II: How should we go about fighting poverty? ; 13. Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Emmanuel Saez ; 14. Transfers and safety nets in poor countries : revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Martin Ravallion ; 15. Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Dilip Mookherjee ; 16. Chile labor / Christopher Udry ; 17. Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / Kaushik Basu ; 18. The primacy of education / Anne Case ; 19. Public goods and economic development / Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak ; 20. Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Jean Tirole ; 21. Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Michael Kremer ; 22. Microinsurance : the next revolution? / Jonathan Morduch ; 23. Credit, intermediation, and poverty reduction / Robert M. Townsend -- Part III: New ways of thinking about poverty ; 24. Poor but rational? / Esther Duflo ; 25. Better choices to reduce poverty / Sendhil Mullainathan ; 26. Nonmarket institutions / Kaivan Munshi ; 27. Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Glenn C. Loury ; 28. Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Debraj Ray.

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