Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty
Edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Author Information
Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. His recent research has focussed on inequality, poverty, and undernutrition; human development; population ethics; health economics; and the theory and measurement of economic inequality. He has been Visiting and Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and served as Acting Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and is currently Visiting Professor at the Harvard Medical School. He chaired the WHO scientific committee on health systems performance assessment.
Paul Segal is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. His research covers global poverty and inequality, and the economics of resource-rich countries, with a particular focus on the distribution of income. Prior to completing his DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 2006, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, and a Consultant Economist at the UNDP, where he worked on the Human Development Report 2002. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico City.
Joseph E. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 and is University Professor at Columbia University, where he founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue in 2000. He was Chair of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors from 1995-97, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. He is also Chair of the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. His best known recent publications include Making Globalization Work (2006), Fair Trade for All (2005), Globalization and its Discontents (2002) and The Roaring Nineties (2003).
Contributors:
Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford
Paul Segal, University of Oxford
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Sanjay G. Reddy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Thomas W. Pogge, Australian National University and Yale University
Surjit Bhalla, Oxus Research and Investments
T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University
Bettina Aten, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Alan Heston, University of Pennsylvania
Angus Deaton, Princeton University
Robert Johnston
Ivo Havinga
Gisele Kamanou
Viet Vu
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School
David Stewart
Albert Berry, University of Toronto
Carl Riskin, Queens College, CUNY and Columbia University
Qin Gao, Fordham University
Shaohua Chen, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
Suresh D .Tendulkar, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
K. Sundaram, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
David Sahn, Cornell University
Stephen Younger, Cornell University
