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The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools

Beschreibung

This volume assembles methodologies and techniques to evaluate the poverty impact of macroeconomic policies. It deals with evaluating the impact of macro-economic policies or shocks on poverty and income distribution using cutting-edge approaches, presenting a comprehensive array of modern micro-simulation techniques.

Autor

FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON is Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, USA. He is a specialist in the economics of development, public policy, economic growth, income distribution and inequality. As the World Bank's Senior Vice-President for Development Economics and Chief Economist since October 2003, he provides intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank's overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels. As a member of the Bank's senior management team he advises the President and Bank's management on economic issues. LUIZ PEREIRA DA SILVA has been working for the government of Brazil since 2004, as Secretary of State for International Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, and as Chief Economist in the Ministry of Budget and Planning. Before that, he held a lead economist position in the Research Department of the World Bank, and his areas of work are macroeconomic modelling of financial crises and poverty. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris-I (Sorbonne). He has worked for the French central statistical office (INSEE) and the governments of South Africa, Brazil and Japan, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. MAURIZIO BUSSOLO is a Senior Economist in the Global Trends team of the Development Prospects Group of the World Bank, USA.

Produktdetails

• Equity and Development
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / World Bank Publications
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780821357781
• ISBN-10: 0821357786
• Artikelnr.: 21411225