Nora Lustig
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| Born |
January 13, 1951 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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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 | |
Nora Lustig (born January 13, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane University and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.[1]
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
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 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. She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue,[6] the Earth Institute and the Institute of Development Studies.[7]
From 2001 to 2005, she served as Rector of the University of the Americas (UDLAP) in Puebla, Mexico.
Selected publications
Articles
- Lustig, Nora (2010). Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress?, Brookings Institution Press and UNDP, Washington, DC, June 2010.
- Lustig, Nora (2008). Thought for Food: the Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices Working Paper No. 155, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, November 2008.
- Lustig, Nora (2004, co-editor) The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America, Oxford University Press, Washington, D.C., 2004 (coeditor with Francois Bourguignon and Francisco Ferreira and chapter author)
- Lustig, Nora (2001) Life is not Easy: Mexico’s Quest for Stability and Growth, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1), 85–106, Winter 2001.
- Lustig, Nora (2001) Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World, The Brookings Institution and Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D. C., 2001. (Editor)
- Lustig, Nora (2000) Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics, Economía, The Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 1(1), 1–45, Fall 2000.
- Lustig, Nora (1998) Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 2nd Edition 1998 and 1st Edition 1992.
- Lustig, Nora (Co-Editor 1997) Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1997. (Coeditor with Sebastian Edwards)
- Lustig, Nora (Editor and Chapter Author 1995) Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1995. (editor and chapter author)
Working Papers
- Raymundo Campos, Gerado Esquivel, and Nora Lustig. 2012. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1201.
- Nora Lustig, Carola Pessino, George Gray Molina, Wilson Jimenez, Veronica Paz, Ernesto Yanez, Claudiney Pereira, and Sean Higgins. 2011. Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1124.
- Nora Lustig. 2011. Scholars Who Became Practitioners: the Influence of Research on the Design, Evaluation and Political Survival of Mexico's Anti-poverty Program Progresa/Oportunidades. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1123.
- Nora Lustig. 2011. Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): A Diagnostic Framework to Assess Governments' Fiscal Policies Handbook. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1122.
- Nora Lustig. 2011. Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1121.
- Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Darryl McLeod. 2011. Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1120.
- Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. 2011. The Decline in Inequality in Latin America: How Much, Since When and Why. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1118.
- Darryl McLeod and Nora Lustig. 2011. Inequality and Poverty under Latin America's New Left Regimes. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1117.
- Nora Lustig and Jaime Ros. 2011. Latin America's Economic Challenges: Lessons for Emerging Economies. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1112.
- Nora Lustig. 2011. The Knowledge Bank and Poverty Reduction. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1111.
- Nora Lustig and Leonardo Gasparini. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1110.
- Nora Lustig. 2009. Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World. Tulane University Economics Working Paper 0907.
References
- ↑ http://www.noralustig.org
- ↑ http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/967228/
- ↑ http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,contentMDK:20195989~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336992,00.html
- ↑ http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/1998/mexcorev.aspx
- ↑ http://www.lacea.org/lustig.htm
- ↑ http://www.netamericas.net/Paginas/Lustigwp.asp
- ↑ http://www.noralustig.org
External links
- Personal Website
- Nora Lustig Tulane Profile
- Nora Lustig Blog
- Inter American Dialogue
- Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
- Economia
- Global Economic Governance Program
- "Uneven economies" Financial Times
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