Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee / Roland Bénabou / Dilip Mookherjee

Understanding Poverty

Ed. by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookherjee

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for new vaccines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9780195305203
• ISBN-10: 0195305205
• Artikelnr.: 21156172

Autorenporträt

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics and Director, Poverty Action Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1993. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MA from Jawaharlal University, and a BSc from the University of Calcutta. Roland Bénabou is Professor of Economic and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Instite of Technology and Engineering diplomas from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts at Chaussés in Paris. Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University, where he has taught since 1995. He has also been Director of the Institute for Economic Development there since 1998. He studied Economics at Presidency College, Calcutta, the Delhi School of Economics, and the London School of Economics.