François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is the former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics,^[1] and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.^[2]

Education

He has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• Bourguignon, François; Atkinson, Anthony B. (2000). Handbook of income distribution. Amsterdam New York: Elvesier. ISBN 9780444816313. 
• Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools. Washington, DC: World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780821354919. 
• Bourguignon, François; Lustig, Nora; 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. 
• Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan World Bank. ISBN 9780821357781. 

Chapters in books

• Bourguignon, François (2005), "The effect of economic growth on social structures", in Aghion, Philippe; Durlauf, Steven N., Handbook of economic growth 1B, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1701–1748, ISBN 9780444520432. 
• Bourguignon, François; Stern, Nicholas; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2006), "Evaluating the poverty impact of economic policies: some analytical challenges", in Mody, Ashoka; Pattillo, Catherine, Macroeconomic policies and poverty, London New York: Routledge, ISBN 041570071X.  Pdf version.
• Bourguignon, François; Chakravarty, Satay R. (2009), "Multidimensional poverty orderings: theory and applications", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 337–362, ISBN 9780199239115. 

Journal articles

• Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). "The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools". World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. 
• Bourguignon, François; Lustig, Nora; Ferreira, Francisco (2005). "The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America". World Bank Oxford University Press. 
• Sundberg, Mark (May 2007). "Aid effectiveness: opening the black box". The American Economic Review (American Economic Association via JSTOR) 97 (2): 316–321. JSTOR 30034468. 

• Bourguignon, François; Ferrera, Francisco H.G.; Walton, Michael (August 2007). "Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: a research agenda". The Journal of Economic Inequality (Springer) 5 (2): 235–256. doi:10.1007/s10888-006-9042-8. 
• Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). "The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools". Open Knowledge Repository (Palgrave Macmillan World Bank). 

See also

• Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle

References