03673nam a22004214a 4500 ebr10283477 CaPaEBR 20260707175930.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 050628s2006 enka sb 001 0 eng 2005018492 GBA624764 bnb 013408393 Uk 0195305191 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195305205 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780195305197 9780195305203 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646804801 HC79.P6 U533 2006eb 362.5 22 100212 80089 Understanding poverty [electronic resource] / edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherjee. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. lii, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Poverty. 9858 Poor. 23011 Electronic books. local 190 Banerjee, Abhijit V. 139197 Benabou, Roland. 139198 Mookherjee, Dilip. 139199 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10283477 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 100212 80089