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Understanding Poverty
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, and Dilip Mookherjee
Abstract
This volume presents 28 essays on poverty by some of the leading experts in the field of economics. The book is divided into three sections, beginning with an essay about how poverty is measured. The first section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of “excessive” population growth, corruption, and ethnic conflict. The second section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss issues such as how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, wh ... More
Keywords: poor, colonialism, globalization, population growth, corruption, ethnic conflict, diseases, microfinance, child labor, welfare policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195305197 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006 | DOI:10.1093/0195305191.001.0001 |
