Nora Lustig (born January 13, 1951) is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the Director of the CEQ Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.[1]
Nora Lustig | |
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| Born | January 13, 1951 |
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| Institution | Tulane University |
| Field | Development economics, inequality and poverty, Latin American economics |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Website | www |
Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico.[2] She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career and awards edit
Lustig was the lead author of the World Development Report 2000/1 “Attacking Poverty” (World Bank).[3] Analyzing the dynamics of the Mexican economy has been the other main focus of her research. Her study Mexico, the Remaking of an Economy (Brookings Institution, 1992 and 1998)[4] was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
As co-founder and president of LACEA[5] (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association), she played a pivotal role[6] in the creation and consolidation of the leading association of economists focused on Latin America, the launching of LACEA’s journal Economia and the organization of LACEA’s Network on Inequality and Poverty.[7] She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue,[8] the Earth Institute[9] and the Institute of Development Studies.[1]
From 2001 to 2005, she served as rector of the University of the Americas (UDLAP) in Puebla, Mexico. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow & a Project Director for the Commitment to Equity at the Inter-American Dialogue.[10]
In 2016 Lustig received the Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss Prize for Excellence in Research.[11]
Selected publications edit
Books edit
- Lustig, Nora, ed. (1998) [1992]. Mexico the remaking of an economy (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780585259178.
- Lustig, Nora, ed. (1995). Coping with austerity: poverty and inequality in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815753179.
- Lustig, Nora; Edwards, Sebastian, eds. (1997). Labor markets in Latin America combining social protection with market flexibility. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780585341217.
- Lustig, Nora, ed. (2001). Shielding the poor: social protection in the developing world. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press and the Inter-American Development Bank. ISBN 9780815753216.
- Lustig, Nora; Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco (2005). The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America. Washington, DC New York: World Bank Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780821358610.
- Lustig, Nora; López-Calva, Luis F., eds. (June 2010). Declining inequality in Latin America: a decade of progress?. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press and UNDP. ISBN 9780815704102. Table of contents. Sample chapter. Available online.
Tulane economics working paper series edit
Papers for Tulane economics working paper series, Tulane University.
- Lustig, Nora (May 2009). Coping with rising food prices: policy dilemmas in the developing world (PDF). wp0907.
- Lustig, Nora; Gasparini, Leonardo (February 2011). The rise and fall of income inequality in Latin America (PDF). wp1110.
- Lustig, Nora (February 2011). The knowledge bank and poverty reduction (PDF). wp1111.
- Lustig, Nora; Ros, Jamie (February 2011). Latin America's economic challenges: lessons for emerging economies (PDF). wp1112.
- Lustig, Nora; McLeod, Darryl (March 2011). Inequality and poverty under Latin America's new left regimes (PDF). wp1117.
- Lustig, Nora; López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo (April 2011). The decline in inequality in Latin America: how much, since when and why (PDF). wp1118.
- Lustig, Nora; Birdsall, Nancy; McLeod, Darryl (May 2011). Declining inequality in Latin America: some economics, some politics (PDF). wp1120.
- Lustig, Nora (June 2011). Scholars who became practitioners: the influence of research on the design, evaluation and political survival of Mexico's anti-poverty program Progresa/Oportunidades (PDF). wp1123.
- Lustig, Nora (June 2011). Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: what do we gain and what do we (PDF). wp1121.
- Lustig, Nora (July 2011). Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): a diagnostic framework to assess governments' fiscal policies handbook (PDF). wp1122.
- Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; Jimenez, Wilson; Paz, Veronica; Yanez, Ernesto; Pereira, Claudiney; Higgins, Sean (October 2011). Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: challenging the conventional wisdom (PDF). wp1124.
- Lustig, Nora; Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerado (January 2012). The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010 (PDF). wp1201.
Other articles and papers edit
- Lustig, Nora (Fall 2000). "Crises and the poor: socially responsible macroeconomics". Economía, the Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. 1 (1): 1–45. doi:10.1353/eco.2000.0009. SSRN 214994. Pdf.
- Lustig, Nora (Winter 2001). "Life is not easy: Mexico's quest for stability and growth". The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 15 (1): 85–106. doi:10.1257/jep.15.1.85. JSTOR 2696542. Pdf.
- Lustig, Nora (November 2008). "Thought for food: the challenges of coping with soaring food prices". Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development. wp155.
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References edit
- ^ a b "Nora Lustig CV". Nora Lustig. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Nora Lustig". Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Poverty - WDR 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty (Full Text)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ "Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact". Brookings. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "LACEA: Past President". Archived from the original on 2006-02-13. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ "LACEA -Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association or Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe". www.lacea.org. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
- ^ Finance and development. Volume 42, no. 4, Latin America, a time of transition. International Monetary Fund. 2005. ISBN 978-1463983512. OCLC 796092259.
- ^ "Inter-American Dialogue - Nora Lustig". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "News Archive - The Earth Institute - Columbia University". www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
- ^ "Inter-American Dialogue | Nora Lustig". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Nora Lustig receives Schloss Prize for Economics". Tulane News. Retrieved 2017-07-04.