Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction
By: edited by Ashoka Mody and Catherine Pattilo.
Contributors: Mody, Ashoka.; Pattilo, Catherine.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries.; Economic stabilization -- Developing countries.; Developing countries -- Economic policy.
Description: "Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction goes beyond the traditional literature on poverty, dealing with this critical topic in a technically sophisticated, yet accessible, manner. Recognizing that economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction, this book nevertheless emphasizes the importance of particular country circumstances in mediating the relationship between growth and poverty reduction. The innovative essays use country case studies to analyze how the political economy of budgetary decisions, financial reforms, and trade liberalization, and periods of crises affect inequality and poverty."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction : stylized facts and an overview of research / by Ratna Sahay, Paul Cashin, Paolo Mauro and Catherine Pattillo; title: Evaluating the poverty impact of economic policies : some analytical challenges / by Francois Bourguignon, Luiz Pereira da Silva and Nicholas Stern; title: Trade, growth, and poverty : a selective survey / by Andrew Berg and Anne Krueger; title: Odious debt / by Seema Jayachandran and Michael Kremer; title: Aid and fiscal management / by Aleš Bulír and Timothy Lane; title: Who is protected? On the incidence of fiscal adjustment / by Martin Ravallion; title: Understanding the evolution of inequality during transition : the optimal income taxation framework / by Ravi Kanbur and Matti Tuomala; title: Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice / by Xavier Giné and Robert M. Townsend; title: Trade reforms and income inequality in Colombia / by Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi Goldberg, and Nina Pavcnik; title: Financial crises, poverty, and income distribution / by Emanuele Baldacci, Luiz de Mello, and Gabriela Inchauste; title: Growth and shocks : evidence from rural Ethiopia / by Stefan Dercon; title: Economic shocks, wealth, and welfare / by Elizabeth Frankenberg, James P. Smith, and Duncan Thomas.