Growth, Inequality, and Poverty

Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph van der Hoeven

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

A major contribution to one of the core issues current in development economics.
Uses new microeconomic techniques such as poverty maps and microsimulation models to help analyse poverty and pro-poor policies.
A well-balanced presentation of the major issues in the area.

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty

Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph van der Hoeven

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Description

The relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. This volume draws together many of the most important recent contributions to the controversies surrounding this topic.

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty

Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph van der Hoeven

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

1. Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements, Ravi Kanbur
2. Growth is Good for the Poor, David Dollar and Aart Kraay
3. Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond the Averages, Martin Ravallion
4. The Growth Elasticity of Poverty, Rasmus Heltberg
5. Education is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay, Erich Gundlach, José Navarro de Pablo, and Natascha Weisert
6. Growth, Distribution, and Poverty Reduction: LDCs are Falling Further Behind, Felix Naschold
7. Redistribution Does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction, Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven, and John Weeks
8. Producing and Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries, Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, and Berk Özler
9. Twin Peaks: Distribution Dynamics of Economic Growth Across Indian States, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
10. A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Microsimulation Study for Côte d'Ivoire, Michael Grimm
11. Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A Micro-Simulation for Ceará, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillipe George Leite
12. Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review, Arne Bigsten and Jörgen Levin

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty

Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph van der Hoeven

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

Author Information

Anthony Shorrocks is Director of WIDER, having previously held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Essex. He has published extensively on topics related to income and wealth distribution, inequality, and poverty, and has been recently working on various issues concerned with the social problems facing Russia in the post reform era. Rolph van der Hoeven is Manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on Globalization, established by the International Labour Organization in Geneva. Having previously held positions in the Employment Strategy Department at the ILO and with UNICEF in New York, he is widely published on employment, poverty, inequality, and economic reform issues.

Contributors:

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Arne Bigsten, Göteborg University
Hulya Dagdeviren, Business School, University of Hertfordshire
Gabriel Demombynes, University of California, Berkeley,
David Dollar, World Bank Research Department
Chris Elbers, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, World Bank Research Department
Michael Grimm, European Centre for Research in Development Economics
Erich Gundlach, Kiel Institute of World Economics
Rasmus Heltberg, World Bank
Rolph van der Hoeven, Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on Globalization
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Aart Kraay, World Bank Development Research Group
Jean O. Lanjouw, Brookings Institution
Peter Lanjouw, World Bank Development Economics Research Group
Phillipe George Leite, Department of Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Jörgen Levin, Department of Economics, Örebro University
Johan Mistiaen, World Bank Development Research Group
Felix Naschold, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Berk Özler, World Bank Development Research Group Poverty Cluster
José Navarro de Pablo, Group Public Policy International of UBS
Martin Ravallion, World Bank Research Department
John Weeks, School of Oriental and African Studies and the Centre for Development Policy and Research
Natascha Weisert, Graduate Institute of International Studies