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Title Understanding poverty / edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland BĂ©nabou, Dilip Mookherjee.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.5 U55UP    Check Shelf
Description lii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Armendáriz 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.
Subject Poor.
Local Subject Poor people.
Subject Poverty.
Added Author Banerjee, Abhijit V.
Benabou, Roland.
Mookherjee, Dilip.
ISBN 0195305191 cloth alkaline paper
9780195305197 cloth alkaline paper
0195305205 paperback alkaline paper
9780195305203 paperback alkaline paper
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