Adjustment Policies, Poverty, and Unemployment: The IMMPA FrameworkISBN: 978-1-4051-3633-4
Hardcover
560 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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"While economic growth may potentially raise living standards
across the board in developing countries, the policies adopted at
the macro level to promote growth are clearly not
distribution-neutral. Because the urgency to raise living standards
is greatest at the bottom of the income distribution in such
countries, the need to understand the links between macroeconomic
policies and poverty reduction looms large on the development
research agenda. Unfortunately, because this issue is at the
intersection of micro- and macroeconomics, it has tended to fall
between the stools of researchers, despite the attention that the
issue has recently received in policy circles.
"This volume represents an impressive start in redressing this
situation. The papers contained here develop innovative analytical
tools that are applied to investigate the employment and
distributional effects of standard macroeconomic policies in the
context of specific developing countries, showing the way to future
progress in this important area of research. It is bound to become
a standard reference for future research on the macroeconomics of
unemployment and poverty reduction in developing countries."
Peter Montiel, Professor of Economics, Williams College