Peter Lanjouw, Nicholas Stern

Gebundenes Buch

Economic Development in Palanpur Over Five Decades

Beschreibung

This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. The authors tie in the background issues of the evolution of poverty and inequality and mobility over time with causal factors such as technological progress, demographic and sectoral changes, the operation of markets, and the role of public action.

Autor

Peter Lanjouw, Research Manager, Poverty Cluster, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank, Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics and Political Sciences Dr Peter Lanjouw is the former Research Manager of the Poverty and Inequality Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He first joined the Bank in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on poverty measurement methods and rural-urban economic transformation. He is a past editorial board member of the World Bank Economic Review and of the Journal of African Economies. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute of International Development. Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is Director of the India Observatory, Chairman of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chairman of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and President-elect of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019). He has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2007.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9780198288329
• ISBN-10: 0198288328
• Artikelnr.: 21596713