Understanding poverty / edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherjee.

Incluye bibliografía.

Measuring poverty / Angus Deaton -- Understanding prosperity and poverty : geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson -- Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman & Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- The Kuznets curve : yesterday and tomorrow / Thomas Piketty -- New growth approach to poverty alleviation / Philippe Aghion & Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion -- Globalization and all that / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee -- The global economy and the poor / Pranab Bardhan -- The role of agriculture in development / Mukesh Eswaran & Ashok Kotwal -- Fertility and income / T. Paul Schultz -- Fertility in developing countries / Mukesh Eswaran -- Corruption and development / Jean-Jacques Laffont -- Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction / Edward Miguel -- Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries / Emmanuel Saez -- Transfers and safety nets in poor countries : revisiting the trade-offs and policy options / Martin Ravallion -- Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies / Dilip Mookherjee -- Child labor / Christopher Udry -- Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor / Kaushik Basu -- The primacy of education / Anne Case -- Public goods and economic development / Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak -- Intellectual property and health in developing countries / Jean Tirole -- Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases / Michael Kremer -- Microinsurance : the next revolution? / Jonathan Morduch -- Credit, intermediation, and poverty reduction / Robert M. Townsend -- poor but rational? / Esther Duflo -- Better choices to reduce poverty / Sendhil Mullainathan -- Nonmarket institutions / Kaivan Munshi -- Racial stigma : toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory / Glenn C. Loury -- Aspirations, poverty, and economic change / Debraj Ray.