Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

ISBN-10:
0199268657
ISBN-13:
9780199268658
Pub. Date:
05/06/2004
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10:
0199268657
ISBN-13:
9780199268658
Pub. Date:
05/06/2004
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

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Overview

The relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. This volume draws together many of the most important recent contributions to the controversies surrounding this topic.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199268658
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 05/06/2004
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics Series
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Anthony Shorrocks is Director of WIDER, having previously held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Essex. He has published extensively on topics related to income and wealth distribution, inequality, and poverty, and has been recently working on various issues concerned with the social problems facing Russia in the post reform era. Rolph van der Hoeven is Manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on Globalization, established by the International Labour Organization in Geneva. Having previously held positions in the Employment Strategy Department at the ILO and with UNICEF in New York, he is widely published on employment, poverty, inequality, and economic reform issues.

Table of Contents

1. Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements, Ravi Kanbur
2. Growth is Good for the Poor, David Dollar and Aart Kraay
3. Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond the Averages, Martin Ravallion
4. The Growth Elasticity of Poverty, Rasmus Heltberg
5. Education is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay, Erich Gundlach, José Navarro de Pablo, and Natascha Weisert
6. Growth, Distribution, and Poverty Reduction: LDCs are Falling Further Behind, Felix Naschold
7. Redistribution Does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction, Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven, and John Weeks
8. Producing and Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries, Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, and Berk Özler
9. Twin Peaks: Distribution Dynamics of Economic Growth Across Indian States, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
10. A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Microsimulation Study for Côte d'Ivoire, Michael Grimm
11. Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A Micro-Simulation for Ceará, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillipe George Leite
12. Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review, Arne Bigsten and Jörgen Levin

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