Introduction and overview / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee ... [et al.]
Measuring poverty / Angus Deaton
PART I. THE CAUSES OF POVERTY
Understanding prosperity and poverty: geography, institutions, and the reversal of fortune / Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.]
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
PART II. HOW SHOULD WE GO ABOUT FIGHTING POVERTY?
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 overty reduction / Robert M. Townsend
PART III. NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT POVERTY
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.
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