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001 2005018492
003 DLC
005 20070515134407.0
008 050628s2006 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005018492
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020 $a0195305191 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0195305205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780195305197
020 $a9780195305203
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm60791642
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050 00 $aHC79.P6$bU533 2006
082 00 $a362.5$222
245 00 $aUnderstanding poverty /$cedited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherjee.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $alii, 443 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction and overview /$rAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.] --$tMeasuring poverty /$rAngus Deaton --$gPART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY --$tUnderstanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune /$rDaron Acemoglu ... [et al.] --$tColonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development /$rStanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff --$tThe Kuznets curve: yesterday and tomorrow /$rThomas Piketty --$tNew growth approach to poverty alleviation /$rPhilippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion --$tGlobalization and all that /$rAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee --$tThe global economy and the poor /$rPranab Bardhan --$tThe role of agriculture in development /$rMukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal --$tFertility and income /$rT. Paul Schultz --$tFertility in developing countries /$rMukesh Eswaran --$tCorruption and development /$rJean-Jacques Laffont --$tEthnic diversity and poverty reduction /$rEdward Miguel --$gPART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY? --$tRedistribution toward low incomes in richer countries /$rEmmanuel Saez --$tTransfers and safety nets in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options /$rMartin Ravallion --$tPoverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies /$rDilip Mookherjee --$tChild labor /$rChristopher Udry --$tPolicy dilemmas for controlling child labor /$rKaushik Basu --$tThe primacy of education /$rAnne Case --$tPublic goods and economic development /$rTimothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak --$tIntellectual property and health in developing countries /$rJean Tirole --$tPublic policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases /$rMichael Kremer --$tMicroinsurance: the next revolution? /$rJonathan Morduch --$tCredit, intermediation, and overty reduction /$rRobert M. Townsend --$gPART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY --$tPoor but rational? /$rEsther Duflo --$tBetter choices to reduce poverty /$rSendhil Mullainathan --$tNonmarket institutions /$rKaivan Munshi --$tRacial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory /$rGlenn C. Loury --$tAspirations, poverty, and economic change /$rDebraj Ray.
650 0 $aPoverty.
650 0 $aPoor.
700 1 $aBanerjee, Abhijit V.
700 1 $aBenabou, Roland.
700 1 $aMookherjee, Dilip.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018492.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2005018492-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2005018492-b.html