Towards Human Development New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality

by Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Stewart, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780198706083
• ISBN10: 0198706081
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-06-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Professor of Economics, University of Florence,Frances Stewart, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

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).

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Human Development, Inequality, and Macroeconomics: An Overview of Progress and Unresolved Problems, Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart
Part I: Sir Richard Jolly's Contribution to the Analysis of Economic Development
2. The Achievements of an Optimistic Economist, John Toye
Part II: Human Development and Inequality: Progress in Concepts and Policies?
3. Constructing New Policy Narratives: The Capability Approach as Normative Language, Severine Deneulin
4. Human Development as the Dominant Paradigm: What Counts as Success?, Christopher Colclough
5. Social Protection: Consensus and Challenges, Ravi Kanbur
6. The Strange Neglect of Income Inequality in Economics and Public Policy?, Robert H. Wade
7. Justice, Horizontal Inequality, and Policy in Multi-Ethnic Societies, Frances Stewart
8. Employment, Poverty, and Development: Do We Have the Priorities Right?, Rolph van der Hoeven
Part III: Structural Adjustment, New Macroeconomic Approaches and Remaining Challenges
9. The New Structuralist Macroeconomics and Inequality, Giovanni Andrea Cornia
10. Trade, Exchange Rates, and Global Poverty: Policies for the Poorest, Gerry Helleiner
11. Human Development and Fiscal Policy: Comparing the Crises of 1982-85 and 2008-11, Bruno Martorano, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, and Frances Stewart
12. Innovation for Pro-Poor Growth: From Redistribution with Growth to Redistribution through Growth, Raphael Kaplinsky
13. Helping Control Boom-Bust in Finance through Countercyclical Regulation, Stephany Griffith Jones and Jose Antonio Ocampo