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Poverty, Inequality and Development

Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Alain Janvry

    1. University of California, Berkeley

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  2. Ravi Kanbur

    1. Cornell University, USA

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  • Most published materials on poverty measurement are in the form of pamphlets or articles that provide either a micro or a macro approach
  • These chapters, which are written by international experts in poverty measurement, provide a unique micro-macro linkage
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being (EIAP, volume 1)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Poverty, Inequality and Development: Micro-Macro Perspectives and Linkages

    • Alain de Janvry, Ravi Kanbur
    Pages 1-8

  3. Erik Thorbecke: Growth and Roots

    • Jacob Kol
    Pages 9-14

  4. On the Consistency of Poverty Lines

    • Martin Ravallion, Michael Lokshin
    Pages 15-39

  5. Poverty Indices

    • James E. Foster
    Pages 41-65

  6. Should Poverty and Inequality Measures be Combined?

    • Gary S. Fields
    Pages 67-74

  7. Equality of What? Evidence from India

    • David E. Sahn
    Pages 75-108

  8. Household Investments in Education and Income Inequality at the Community Level: Evidence from Indonesia

    • Jeffrey B. Nugent, Shailender Swaminathan
    Pages 109-130

  9. Poverty Traps and Safety Nets

    • Christopher B. Barrett, John G. McPeak
    Pages 131-154

  10. Progress in the Modeling of Rural Households’ Behavior under Market Failures

    • Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet
    Pages 155-181

  11. Labor Laws and Labor Welfare in the Context of the Indian Experience

    • Kaushik Basu
    Pages 183-204

  12. Macro Models and Multipliers: Leontief, Stone, Keynes, and CGE Models

    • Sherman Robinson
    Pages 205-232

  13. Multiplier Effects and the Reduction of Poverty

    • Graham Pyatt, Jeffery I. Round
    Pages 233-259

  14. Developing an Accounting Matrix for the Euro Area: Issues and Applications

    • Tjeerd Jellema, Steven Keuning, Peter McAdam, Reimund Mink
    Pages 261-286

  15. Globalization, Economic Reform, and Structural Price Transmission: Sam Decomposition Techniques with an Empirical Application to Vietnam

    • David Roland-Holst, Finn Tarp
    Pages 287-307

  16. Institutions, Factor Endowment and Inequality in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal

    • Christian Morrisson
    Pages 309-329

  17. Incentives, Inequality and the Allocation of Aid When Conditionality Doesn’t Work: An Optimal Nonlinear Taxation Approach

    • Ravi Kanbur, Matti Tuomala
    Pages 331-351

  18. Agricultural Research and Policy to Achieve Nutrition Goals

    • Per Pinstrup-Andersen
    Pages 353-370

  19. Is Dualism Worth Revisiting?

    • Gustav Ranis
    Pages 371-385
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About this book

This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work. Erik Thorbecke has made significant contributions to the microeconomic and the macroeconomic analysis of poverty, inequality and development, ranging from theory to empirics and policy. The essays in this volume display the same range. As a collection they make the fundamental point that deep understanding of these phenomena requires both the micro and the macro perspectives together, utilizing the strengths of each but also the special insights that come when the two are linked together. After an overview section which contains the introductory chapter and a chapter examining the historical roots of Erik Thorbecke's motivations, the essays in this volume are grouped into four parts, each part identifying a major strand of Erik's work—Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Micro Behavior and Market Failure, SAMs and CGEs, and Institutions and Development. The range of topics covered in the essays, written by leading authorities in their own areas, highlight the extraordinary depth and breadth of Erik Thorbecke's influence in research and policy on poverty, inequality and development. Acknowledgements These papers were presented at a conference in honor of Erik Thorbecke held at Cornell University on October 10-11, 2003. The conference was supported by the funds of the H. E. Babcock Chair in Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, and the T. H. Lee Chair in World Affairs at Cornell University.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley

    Alain Janvry

  • Cornell University, USA

    Ravi Kanbur

About the editors

Alain de Janvry teaches agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ravi Kanbur teaches applied economics at Cornell University.

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