La semana pasada discutimos, en mi clase de economía política, temas de pobreza y desigualdad a nivel global y cross-country. Estos son algunos de los materiales:
- Xavier Sala i Martin. 2006. "The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and Convergence, Period", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 2: 351-397. (Sobre todo las secciones I, III y IV).
- Xavier Sala i Martin & Brian Sowndon. 2006. "The Enduring Elixir of Economic Growth: Xavier Sala-i-Martin on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations", by Brian Snowdon, World Economics, Vol. 7, No 1.
- Powerpoint sobre el "State of the World" de Xavier Sala-i-Martin.
- Presentación flash de la distribución mundial del ingreso y de países selectos, basado en el trabajo de Sala-i-Martin (2006) .
- Ed Glaeser. 2006. "Inequality" en: Weingast & Wittman (eds.), Handbook of Political Economy, Cap. 34, págs. 84-102.
- Ann Harrison. 2006. "Globalization and Poverty", NBER working paper no. 12347.
HOW TO MEASURE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY?
Syllabus y powerpoints de un curso corto sobre "Inequality, Poverty and Income Distribution" impartido por Frank Cowell, director of the Distributional Analysis Research Programme at the London School of Economics, and editor of Economica.
WHAT WORKS IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION?
Esther Duflo, del Poverty Action Lab de MIT, quiere salvar al mundo con ayuda del método científico y los diseños experimentales. Veanla responder la pregunta: Fighting Poverty: What Works? (35min video). No dejen de ver los ambiciosos projectos del centro.
BUT CAN WE REALLY DO IT?
Conozcan a Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainable Development, Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and fomer Director of the UN Millennium Project. He is author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
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