Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory Policy, and Empirics

摘要

Understanding Growth and Poverty provides an accessible and up-to-date review of the knowledge accumulated on economic growth and poverty in the last decades. Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith achieve the difficult task of covering, in a nontechnical fashion, a very wide range of research and its policy implications. By not assuming any previous economics knowledge, the authors aim at reaching interested readers from policy circles, donor agencies, NGOs, etc. Even if there are some chapters that are redundant for the trained economist, the wealth of data presented when covering specific topics can provide an interesting first-perspective to economists who are outsiders to the topic. In addition, the reader will make acquaintance with some of the World Bank parlance (e.g., "growth diagnostics" coined from Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik, and Andres Velasco 2008), and will learn the opinion of the World Bank regarding current growth and poverty debates (to the extent that the book is representative of it).