TY - BOOK AU - Banerjee,Abhijit V. AU - Benabou,Roland AU - Mookherjee,Dilip TI - Understanding poverty SN - 195305191 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford (Oxfordshire, Inglaterra) PB - Oxford University Press KW - Pobres KW - Pobreza KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Problemas sociales N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018492.html ER -