Pro-poor growth, Income distribution, Poverty, Survey

Bigsten, Arne

Levin, Jorgen

English

Research Papers in Economics

(forthcoming) ‘Global Poverty Measures 1987-1998 and Projections for the Future’, World Bank:

A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth’,

A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Effect of Macroeconomic Adjustment on Poverty in Africa’,

Adjustment and Equity in Developing Countries— A New Approach,

Adjustment and Poverty: A Review of the African Experience’, African Development Review 6.

Are estimates of calorie-income elasticities too high? A recalibration of the plausible range’,

Asian Development Bank

Budgetary Rules to Minimize Societal Poverty in a General Equilibrium Context’,

Business Taxation in a Low-Revenue Economy: A Study on Uganda

Child survival height-for-age and household characteristics in Brazil’,

Dealing with Poverty and Income Distribution Issues in Developing Countries: Cross-regional Experiences’,

Decomposing the gender gap in cognitive skills in a poor rural economy’,

Determinants of Economic Growth. A Cross-Country Empirical Study,

Development of the Labor Surplus Economy,I r w i n :

Distribution, development and education: Taiwan,

Distributive Politics and Economic Growth’,

Do Budgets Really Matter?

Dominance Testing of Social Sector Expenditures and Taxes in Africa’, Working Paper 99/172, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund:

Dynamics of Income Distribution

Economic Development with Unlimited Supply of Labour, The Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies.

Economic Growth and Human Development’,

Economic Growth and Poverty and Inequality’,

Economic Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries’,

Economic reform, poverty reduction and programme aid’, paper presented for the Sida conference on Aid and Development,

Educational expansion and economic decline: returns to education in Kenya, 1978-1995’, CSAE Working Paper WPS/99-5, Centre for the Study of African Economies:

Empirics of World Income Inequality’,

Evaluation of Poverty-Alleviation Impact of Alternative Development Strategies and Adjustment Responses in Africa and Asia’, paper prepared for the 1999 World Bank Conference on Evaluation and Poverty Reduction,

Explaining African Economic Performance’,

Fiscal crisis and fiscal reform in developing countries’,

Global Poverty Reduction: Are We Heading in the Right Direction?’

Globalization and Inequality: World Income Distribution and Living standards, 1960-1998, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

Government Spending and Economic Growth in

Growth and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Development Experience’ (mimeo), Asian Development Bank:

Growth and Poverty in India, Poverty and Human Resource Division, World Bank:

Growth and Rent Dissipation: The Case of Kenya’,

Growth is Good for the Poor’, Policy Research Working Paper No.2587, World Bank:

Growth, distortions and patterns of trade among many countries’,

How does mother’s education affect child height’,

How Important to India’s Poor is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth’,

Human Capital and Development’, background paper for the African Development Report 1998, Centre for the Study of African Economies:

Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services’,

Human Resources: Empirical Modelling of Household and Family Decisions,

Income Distribution and Development’, QEH Working Paper No.37, Queen Elizabeth House,

Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets’, background note to World Development Report 2000/01, Centre for the Study of the African Economies:

Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth’,

India and China: Contrasts in economic liberalization?’,

Industrial Development, Technological Change, and Long-run Growth’,

Inequality and development: the role of dualism’,

Inequality and Growth Reconsidered: Lessons f r o mE a s tA s i a ’ .The World Bank

Inequality and growth: Lessons for Policy Makers’ (mimeo) World Bank:

Inequality in the Distribution for Personal Income in the World: How it is Changing and Why’,

Is inequality harmful for growth?’

Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty in Africa: An Emerging Picture’, World Bank Research Observer.

Micro-Macro Linkages in Financial Markets: The Impact of Financial Liberalization on Access to Rural Credit in Four African Countries’,

More than just Peanuts (Groundnuts: Aid Flows and Policy Reform in The Gambia’,

New ways of looking at old issues: asset inequality and growth’,

On the Mechanics of Economic Development’,

Patterns of development in the j-factor n-good general equilibrium model’,

Performance in Living Standards: An International Comparison’,

Political Economy of Economic Policy Making in Developing Countries. An Overview’, paper for a conference on the diverse experiences with economic reform failure and poor economic performance, in

Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sichuan between 1991-1995,’

Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Magnitude and Characteristics’,

Poverty Reduction in the World Bank: Progress in Fiscal

Poverty-Reducing Targeting Programmes: a General Equilibrium Approach’,

Principles of Targeting’,

Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction’, Policy Working Paper No.1869, World Bank:

Public policy and anthropometric outcomes in the Côte d’Ivoire’, LSMS Working Paper 89, World Bank:

Redistribution in a Political Economy: Leakier Can be Better’ (mimeo),World Bank:

Rents and Exchange Rates: Redistribution through Trade Liberalization

Risk, Production and Saving: Theory and Evidence from Indian Households’,

Sector Growth and the Dual Economy Model: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Zimbabwe’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.2175, World Bank:

Should public capital be subsidized or provided?’

Simulating the effects of Trade Reform on Poverty within a Dual-Dual Framework—A CGE Model of an Archetype African Economy’ (mimeo),

Strategies for Success in Human Development’,

Structural Adjustment and Poverty: The Case of Kenya’,

Structural Adjustment Programmes and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1985-1995’,

Targeting Revisited’,

Targeting: Principles and Practice’,

Terms-of-Trade and the Real Exchange Rate in the CFA Zone: Implications for Income Distribution in Niger,’

The Assessment: The Twentieth Century–Achievements, Failures, Lessons’,

The composition of public expenditures and economic growth’,

The Concept of Development’,

The Evolution of Thinking about Poverty: Exploring the Interactions’, mimeo prepared for the World Development Report

The impact of public spending on health.

The income gap in cognitive skills

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: A Comparative Study,

The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil,

True World Income Distribution,

Wealthier is healthier’,

What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty?’,

Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review

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