Poverty, Inequality and Development

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

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.

• Economic Development
• Income inequality
• development
• inequality
• poverty

• University of California, Berkeley

  Alain Janvry

• Cornell University, USA

  Ravi Kanbur

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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