Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Frances Stewart

Towards Human Development: New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198784371
• ISBN-10: 0198784376
• Artikelnr.: 47870268

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 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