Research Catalog

Title

Poverty, inequality and development : essays in honor of Erik Thorbecke / edited by Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur.

Publication

New York : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Thorbecke, Erik, 1929-
• De Janvry, Alain.
• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi, 1954-

Description

x, 385 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Poverty
• Economic development
• Equality

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Poverty, inequality and development : micro-macro perspectives and linkages / Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur -- 2. Erik Thorbecke : growth and roots / Jacob Kol -- 3. On the consistency of poverty lines / Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin -- 4. Poverty indices / James E. Foster -- 5. Should poverty and inequality measures be combined? / Gary S. Fields -- 6. Equality of what? : evidence from India / David E. Shan -- 7. Household investments in education and income inequality at the community level : evidence from Indonesia / Jeffrey B. Nugent and Shailender Swaminathan -- 8. Poverty traps and safety nets / Christopher B. Barrett and John G. McPeak -- 9. Progress in the modeling of rural households' behavior under market failures / Alan de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet -- 10. Labor laws and labor welfare in the context of the Indian experience / Kaushik Basu -- 11. Macro models and multipliers : Leontief, Stone, Keynes, and CGE models / Sherman Robinson -- 12. Multiplier effects and the reduction of poverty / Graham Pyatt and Jeffery I. Round -- 13. Developing an accounting matrix for the Euro area : issues and applications / Tjeerd Jellema, Steven Keuning, Peter McAdam and Reimund Mink -- 14. Globalization, economic reform, and structural price transmission : Sam decomposition techniques with an empirical application to Vietnam / David Roland-Holst and Finn Tarp -- 15. Institutions, factor endowment and inequality in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal / Christian Morrisson -- 16. Incentives, inequality and the allocation of aid when conditionality doesn't work : an optimal nonlinear taxation approach / Ravi Kanbur and Matti Tuomala -- 17. Agricultural research and policy to achieve nutrition goals / Per Pinstrub-Andersen -- 18. Is dualism worth revisiting? / Gustav Ranis.

ISBN

• 1402078501
• 0387297480 (e-ISBN)

LCCN

• 9781402078507
• 9780387297484 (e-ISBN-13)

OCLC

• ocm64238671
• SCSB-5930358

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries