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Contemporary Economic Issues

Volume 2: Labour, Food and Poverty

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Yair Mundlak

    1. Department of Economics, University of Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Income Distribution and the Welfare State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for Would-be Welfare States

      • Assar Lindbeck
      Pages 3-24

    3. Income Distribution Theory: A Survey of Selected Recent Contributions

      • Thomas Piketty
      Pages 25-38

    4. The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?

      • Timothy M. Smeeding, Peter Gottschalk
      Pages 39-61

    5. Openness and Within-Country Inequality

      • Susan Horton, Ravi Kanbur, Dipak Mazumdar
      Pages 63-80

  4. Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Agricultural Development: Issues, Evidence and Consequences

      • Yair Mundlak, Donald Larson, Al Crego
      Pages 149-172

    3. Incentive Distortions in Developing Agriculture in South Africa and Implications for Tenure Reform

      • W. Lieb Nieuwoudt, Graham Moor, Rupert Baber
      Pages 173-191

    4. Agriculture in Transition: Land Reform in Former Socialist Countries

      • Zvi Lerman
      Pages 193-209

  5. Policy Aspects of Public Goods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Infrastructure: The Contribution of Benchmarking and Economic Analysis to the Reform of the Energy, Water and Transport Sectors

      • Peter L. Swan, Denis Lawrence, John Zeitsch
      Pages 213-242

    3. Economic Regulation and Political Influence

      • Israel Finkelshtain, Yoav Kislev
      Pages 243-258
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An overview of many currently topical issues around food and agriculture, with particular emphasis on their implications for development. These include Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel's discussion of nutritional standards and the implications of new theories of evolution in assessing the extent of malnutrition. Historical analysis informs contemporary surveys, including Yair Mundlak's comparison of the postwar record of 130 countries in agricultural technology and outputs. The important implications of labour markets, income distributions and the impact of welfare states on these issues are considered by a number of papers. The contributors include many leading academics from North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Israel.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of Chicago, USA

    Yair Mundlak

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