TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banerjee,Abhijit V.
AU  - Benabou,Roland
AU  - Mookherjee,Dilip
TI  - Understanding poverty
SN  - 0195305191 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HC79.P6 U533 2006
U1  - 362.5 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Poor
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018492.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2005018492-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2005018492-b.html
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