Pierre-Richard Agenor / Alejandro Izquierdo (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Adjustment Policies, Poverty, and Unemployment

The Immpa Framework

Herausgeber: Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Jensen, Henning Tarp; Izquierdo, Alejandro

Beschreibung

Pierre-Richard Agénor's pioneering work on Integrated Macroeconomics Models for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) is cataloged for the first time in this must-read volume. A class of dynamic computable general equilibrium models, IMMPA models are designed to analyze the impact of adjustment policies on unemployment and poverty in the developing world. Including both papers originally circulated through the World Bank, as well as new material that places this important work in its larger context, Adjustment Policies, Poverty, and Unemployment details the history and uses of these models to date, as well as pointing to future developments for their utilization.

Autor

Pierre-Richard Agénor is Hallsworth Professor of International Macroeconomics and Development Economics at the University of Manchester, and co-director of the Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research. His research interests include international macroeconomics, development economics, and growth theory. He has published widely in leading professional journals and is the author of several best-selling books, including Development Macroeconomics (with Peter Montiel) and The Economics of Adjustment and Growth. Alejandro Izquierdo is Senior Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank and a former economist at the World Bank. His current research focuses on international finance and open-economy macroeconomics, with a particular interest in the analysis of sudden stops in capital flows. Henning Tarp Jensen is Assistant Professor and member of the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He has a well-established publication record within the area of computable general equilibrium modeling and a long-standing research interest in low- and middle-income countries, including Mozambique and Vietnam, as well as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Turkey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9781405136334
• ISBN-10: 1405136332
• Artikelnr.: 21630448

Rezensionen

"Including papers originally circulated through the World Bank, aswell as new material that places this important work in its largercontext, the book details the history and uses of these models andpoints to future developments for thier utilization."
International Social Security Review

"While economic growth may potentially raise living standardsacross the board in developing countries, the policies adopted atthe macro level to promote growth are clearly notdistribution-neutral. Because the urgency to raise living standardsis greatest at the bottom of the income distribution in suchcountries, the need to understand the links between macroeconomicpolicies and poverty reduction looms large on the developmentresearch agenda.

Unfortunately, because this issue is at theintersection of micro- and macroeconomics, it has tended to fallbetween the stools of researchers, despite the attention that theissue has recently received in policy circles.

"This volume represents an impressive start in redressing thissituation. The papers contained here develop innovative analyticaltools that are applied to investigate the employment anddistributional effects of standard macroeconomic policies in thecontext of specific developing countries, showing the way to futureprogress in this important area of research. It is bound to becomea standard reference for future research on the macroeconomics ofunemployment and poverty reduction in developing countries."
Peter Montiel, Professor of Economics, Williams College