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This book advances thinking in the area of Human Development by analysing its relation with inequality and macro-economic policy. It presents a new framework for a pro-growth pro-Human Development macro-economics, including suggestions for the global management of technology and capital flows.
Giovanni Andrea Cornia has been Professor of Economics at the University of Florence since 2000. Previously he was the director of UNU-WIDER and chief-economist of Unicef. He has also held research positions at other UN agencies and the private sector. Since 2010 he has served on the UN Committee for Development Policies, and in 2012 he was elected President of the Italian Development Economists Association. He has co-authored, edited or co-edited 14 books on development and transition economics, including UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987). He has published 50 articles in scholarly journals and 150 working papers on development macroeconomics, inequality, poverty, political economy, child wellbeing, and human development. His latest book is Falling Inequality in Latin America (OUP, 2014). Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex. She was director of Oxford's Department of International Development. She has been President of the UK and Irish Development Studies Association and the Human Development and Capability Association, and Chair of the United Nation's Committee for Development Policy. She received the Mahbub ul Haq award, from the United Nations, for lifetime services to Human Development and the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought for 2013. Her books include Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan, 1976), Planning to Meet Basic Needs (1985), UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987), War and Underdevelopment (OUP, 2001), and Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave, 2008).
Show moreThis book advances thinking in the area of Human Development by analysing its relation with inequality and macro-economic policy. It presents a new framework for a pro-growth pro-Human Development macro-economics, including suggestions for the global management of technology and capital flows.
Giovanni Andrea Cornia has been Professor of Economics at the University of Florence since 2000. Previously he was the director of UNU-WIDER and chief-economist of Unicef. He has also held research positions at other UN agencies and the private sector. Since 2010 he has served on the UN Committee for Development Policies, and in 2012 he was elected President of the Italian Development Economists Association. He has co-authored, edited or co-edited 14 books on development and transition economics, including UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987). He has published 50 articles in scholarly journals and 150 working papers on development macroeconomics, inequality, poverty, political economy, child wellbeing, and human development. His latest book is Falling Inequality in Latin America (OUP, 2014). Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex. She was director of Oxford's Department of International Development. She has been President of the UK and Irish Development Studies Association and the Human Development and Capability Association, and Chair of the United Nation's Committee for Development Policy. She received the Mahbub ul Haq award, from the United Nations, for lifetime services to Human Development and the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought for 2013. Her books include Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan, 1976), Planning to Meet Basic Needs (1985), UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987), War and Underdevelopment (OUP, 2001), and Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave, 2008).
Show morePreface
1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart: Human Development,
Inequality, and Macroeconomics: An Overview of Progress and
Unresolved Problems
Part I: Sir Richard Jolly's Contribution to the Analysis of
Economic Development
2: John Toye: The Achievements of an Optimistic Economist
Part II: Human Development and Inequality: Progress in Concepts and
Policies?
3: Séverine Deneulin: Constructing New Policy Narratives: The
Capability Approach as Normative Language
4: Christopher Colclough: Human Development as the Dominant
Paradigm: What Counts as Success?
5: Ravi Kanbur: Social Protection: Consensus and Challenges
6: Robert H. Wade: The Strange Neglect of Income Inequality in
Economics and Public Policy?
7: Frances Stewart: Justice, Horizontal Inequality, and Policy in
Multi-Ethnic Societies
8: Rolph van der Hoeven: Employment, Poverty, and Development: Do
We Have the Priorities Right?
Part III: Structural Adjustment, New Macroeconomic Approaches and
Remaining Challenges
9: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: The New Structuralist Macroeconomics and
Inequality
10: Gerry Helleiner: Trade, Exchange Rates, and Global Poverty:
Policies for the Poorest
11: Bruno Martorano, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, and Frances Stewart:
Human Development and Fiscal Policy: Comparing the Crises of
1982-85 and 2008-11
12: Raphael Kaplinsky: Innovation for Pro-Poor Growth: From
Redistribution with Growth to Redistribution through Growth
13: Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo: Helping
Control Boom-Bust in Finance through Countercyclical Regulation
Giovanni Andrea Cornia has been Professor of Economics at the
University of Florence since 2000. Previously he was the director
of UNU-WIDER and chief-economist of Unicef. He has also held
research positions at other UN agencies and the private sector.
Since 2010 he has served on the UN Committee for Development
Policies, and in 2012 he was elected President of the Italian
Development Economists Association. He has co-authored, edited or
co-edited 14 books on
development and transition economics, including UNICEF's
influential study Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP, 1987). He has
published 50 articles in scholarly journals and 150 working papers
on development
macroeconomics, inequality, poverty, political economy, child
wellbeing, and human development. His latest book is Falling
Inequality in Latin America (OUP, 2014).
Frances Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at
the University of Oxford. She has an honorary doctorate from the
University of Sussex. She was director of Oxford's Department of
International Development. She has been President of the UK and
Irish Development Studies Association and the Human Development and
Capability Association, and Chair of the United Nation's Committee
for Development Policy. She received the Mahbub ul Haq award, from
the United Nations, for lifetime
services to Human Development and the Leontief Prize for Advancing
the Frontiers of Economic Thought for 2013. Her books include
Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan, 1976), Planning to Meet
Basic
Needs (1985), UNICEF's influential study Adjustment with a Human
Face (OUP, 1987), War and Underdevelopment (OUP, 2001), and
Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence
in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave, 2008).
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