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Poverty, Inequality, Latin America
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Nora Lustig is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University, and non-resident fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue. Previously she was Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Director of the Poverty Group at UNDP; President and Professor of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico; Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank; Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and, Professor at the Center of Economic Studies of the Colegio de Mexico. Her research has focused on poverty and inequality, social policies and social protection with particular emphasis on Latin America.
Dr. Lustig has published 15 books and more than 70 articles (33 in refereed journals). Her classic Mexico. The Remaking of an Economy (Brookings Institution) was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. Dr. Lustig was co-founder and President of LACEA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, co-Director of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty and President of the Mexican Commission of Macroeconomics and Health; and, she is the co-director of the UNDP project Markets, the State and the Dynamics of Inequality and the director of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Social Report Card.
Currently she serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Global Development, the Earth Institute, the Instituto Carso de la Salud (Mexico), the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex) and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation and eight editorial boards including the Journal of Economic Inequality, Feminist Economics and the Latin American Research Review. She has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1987. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lustig has spent her adult life in Mexico and the United States. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley
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Here at CGD, we talk a lot about the “what” of policy. We’re in the business of ideas and that sometimes leads us to overlook the crucial question of the “who” in the policy process.
Thankfully we have Nora Lustig, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Samuel...
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Mexico’s Progresa/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful antipoverty program. This paper argues that the transformation of well-trained scholars into influential practitioners played a fundamental role in promoting a new conceptual...
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Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful
way. Is...
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New research shows that inequality in Latin America is falling. In this paper, the authors summarize recent findings, analyze the affect of different regimes, and investigate the relationship between inequality and changes in the size of the middle class in the region. They conclude with some...
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This course will analyze the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their quest for development and public policies meant to address those challenges.
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This course aims to develop a broad understanding of the dynamics of inequality and poverty in Latin America and how market forces and government policies affect those dynamics.
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Visiting fellow Nora Lustig examines the policy dilemmas rising food prices force on developing countries. Letting prices adjust can generate inflationary pressure while efforts to stabilize domestic prices often exacerbate global price increases; during the recent food price crisis, many...
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World food prices risen over the past five years at an alarming pace after decreasing for three consecutive decades. CGD visiting fellow Nora Lustig argues that despite some relief since July 2008, the price hikes significantly set back poverty reduction, upset social stability, promote inflation,...
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This is the course syllabus for Economic Development (IAFF 238), taught by Nora Lustig, Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University and CGD Board member. The course analyzes the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their
quest for...
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New research shows that inequality in Latin America is falling. In this paper, the authors summarize recent findings, analyze the affect of different regimes, and investigate the relationship between inequality and changes in the size of the middle class in the region. They conclude with some...
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Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful
way. Is...
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Mexico’s Progresa/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful antipoverty program. This paper argues that the transformation of well-trained scholars into influential practitioners played a fundamental role in promoting a new conceptual...
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Visiting fellow Nora Lustig examines the policy dilemmas rising food prices force on developing countries. Letting prices adjust can generate inflationary pressure while efforts to stabilize domestic prices often exacerbate global price increases; during the recent food price crisis, many...
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This is the course syllabus for Economic Development (IAFF 238), taught by Nora Lustig, Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University and CGD Board member. The course analyzes the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their
quest for...
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World food prices risen over the past five years at an alarming pace after decreasing for three consecutive decades. CGD visiting fellow Nora Lustig argues that despite some relief since July 2008, the price hikes significantly set back poverty reduction, upset social stability, promote inflation,...
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This course will analyze the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their quest for development and public policies meant to address those challenges.
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This course aims to develop a broad understanding of the dynamics of inequality and poverty in Latin America and how market forces and government policies affect those dynamics.
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Here at CGD, we talk a lot about the “what” of policy. We’re in the business of ideas and that sometimes leads us to overlook the crucial question of the “who” in the policy process.
Thankfully we have Nora Lustig, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Samuel...
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Scholars Who Became Practitioners - Working Paper 263
- Aug 11, 2011
Mexico’s Progresa/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful antipoverty program. This paper argues that the transformation of well-trained scholars into influential practitioners played a fundamental role in promoting a new conceptual...
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Topics in Economic Development (Syllabus)
- Aug 9, 2010
This course will analyze the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their quest for development and public policies meant to address those challenges.
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Economic Development, George Washington University (Syllabus)
- Oct 16, 2008
This is the course syllabus for Economic Development (IAFF 238), taught by Nora Lustig, Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University and CGD Board member. The course analyzes the economic challenges faced by low and middle-income countries in their
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Preparing for the Next Global Food Price Crisis
- Oct 6, 2008
Commodity prices may have sagged somewhat but the latest spike in food prices will not be the last. Moreover, tight markets, climate change, and the changing role of investors in commodity markets all suggest that food price volatility may be greater in the future. Even with more investment in...
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High Costs: Rising Food Prices and the Impacts on the Poor
- Jul 21, 2008
Please join us for a discussion on the policy challenges of spiking food prices in Latin America and how governments are responding. The sharp rise in the cost of food and fuel is threatening the economic stability and growth prospects of many Latin American countries--which, in turn, puts the...
Non-CGD Publications
Among her publications are:
- “Poverty and Inequality in Mexico and Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries,” coeditor, Special Issue of Estudios Economicos, El Colegio de Mexico, February, 2009 .
- Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico, in Advancing Development Core Themes in Global Economics, edited by George Mavrotas and Anthony Shorrocks (Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007)
- The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics, co-edited with Francois Bourguignon and Francisco Ferreira (World Bank, 2004)
- “Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is?” Oxford Development Studies, 32(4), December 2004. (Coauthor)
- “Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics and Regional Effects,” Journal of Development Studies, 39(4), 112-33, April 2003. (Coauthor)
- “Life is not Easy: Mexico’s Quest for Stability and Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1), 85-106, Winter 2001.
- Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World, ed. (Brookings Institution, 2001)
- “Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics,” Economía, The Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 1(1), 1-45, Fall 2000.
- Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy (Brookings Institution, 2nd ed 1998)
- Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection With Market Flexibility, co-edited with Sebastian Edwards (Brookings Institution, 1997)
- Coming Together? Mexico-U.S. Relations, co-edited with Barry Bosworth and Susan Collins (Brookings Institution, 1997)
- Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (Brookings Institution, 1995)
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