Understanding poverty  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, Dilip Mookherjee. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2006. 
 - lii, 443 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Measuring poverty /  Understanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune /  Colonialism, inequality, and long-run paths of development /  The Kuznets curve: yesterday and tomorrow /  New growth approach to poverty alleviation /  Globalization and all that /  The global economy and the poor /  The role of agriculture in development /  Fertility and income /  Fertility in developing countries /  Corruption and development /  Ethnic diversity and poverty reduction /  Redistribution toward low incomes in richer countries /  Transfers and safety nets in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options /  Poverty persistence and design of antipoverty policies /  Child labor /  Policy dilemmas for controlling child labor /  The primacy of education /  Public goods and economic development /  Intellectual property and health in developing countries /  Public policies to stimulate development of vaccines for neglected diseases /  Microinsurance: the next revolution? /  Credit, intermediation, and overty reduction /  Poor but rational? /  Better choices to reduce poverty /  Nonmarket institutions /  Racial stigma: toward a new paradigm for discrimination theory /  Aspirations, poverty, and economic change /  Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.] --  Angus Deaton --  Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.] --  Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff --  Thomas Piketty --  Philippe Aghion, Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion --  Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee --  Pranab Bardhan --  Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal --  T. Paul Schultz --  Mukesh Eswaran --  Jean-Jacques Laffont --  Edward Miguel --  Emmanuel Saez --  Martin Ravallion --  Dilip Mookherjee --  Christopher Udry --  Kaushik Basu --  Anne Case --  Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak --  Jean Tirole --  Michael Kremer --  Jonathan Morduch --  Robert M. Townsend --  Esther Duflo --  Sendhil Mullainathan --  Kaivan Munshi --  Glenn C. Loury --  Debraj Ray.  Introduction and overview /  PART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY --  PART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY? --  PART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY -- 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA624764  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poverty.<br/>Poor.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC79.P6  / U533 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.5