Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Biographic Data
| ID | 477197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Andrea Cornia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornia |
| SIGNATURE | CORNIA G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0578-5105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inequality and Capabilities in an Era of Rising Instability
This paper reviews the trends in income inequality over the last 40 years, and proposes a new explanation for their evolution – that it is hoped will be tested empirically by many studies in the years ahead – to see whether the observed increases in inequality of the last four decades have been caused by an aggravation of its traditional causes (such as land an human capital concentration), or by a widespread increase in instability in five key a…
Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) recorded a remarkable economic performance in the first 15 years of the 21st century. Such an encouraging trend, which reversed the stagnation or decline of the prior 25 years, was accompanied by a perceptible, modest, but uneven decline in aggregate poverty, together with substantial cross-country variation in the poverty-reducing power of growth. This is reflected in, and partially driven by, the variation of inequality…
Economic Inequality and Social Progress
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Africa's Recovery in The 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development
Sources of food price volatility and child malnutrition in Niger and Malawi
Income inequality in Latin America: Recent decline and prospects for its further reduction
The paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline that took place in Latin America in 2002-10 and then focuses on the factors that may explain such decline. These include a lowered skill premium following an expansion of secondary education among the poor, and the adoption of more equalizing tax, labour market subsidies and macro policies by a growing number of progressive governments. Finally, the paper reviews the changes in inequal…
Falling Inequality In Latin America Policy Changes And Lessons
This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide th…
Developing the Poorest Countries: New Ideas from the 2010 UNCTAD LDC Report
Income Distribution under Latin America's New Left Regimes
This paper reviews the decline in income inequality that has taken place over 2002-2007 in most Latin American countries against the background of its steady increase over 1980-2002. The paper analyzes then the factors that could explain this trend reversal. It focuses in particular on favorable external conditions, cyclical factors, improvements in the distribution of educational achievements and the subsequent drop in skill-premium, and changes…
Pro-Poor Macroeconomics: Potential and Limitations
This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allow
Pro-Poor Macroeconomics: Potential and Limitations (Social Policy in a Development Context)
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure the association between income inequality and life ex…
Social Funds in Stabilization and Adjustment Programmes: A Critique
This article evaluates the impact of the large number of Social Funds (SFs) which were introduced over the last fifteen years to offset the increase in poverty induced by adjustment. SFs have enjoyed greater visibility and financial support by the donor community than traditional social security programmes, and raised expectations about improvements in living conditions in developing countries. Notwithstanding the visibility and administrative fl…
Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries, 1945-1995
The authors in this volume utilize a common analytical framework to evaluate how economic, family structure, and public policy changes affected the well-being of children in the industrialized countries in the West and the East from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1990s. Throughout the industrialized world, the living standards and social well-being of children improved remarkably over these five decades. But the quarter-century 'golde…
Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: Evidence and interpretations
Convergence on Governance Issues, Dissent on Economic Policies
WDR97 is an attempt to reconcile the ‘Washington consensus’ with the ‘East Asian model’. It underscores the complementarity existing between state and market, the need to reinvigorate the state's institutions, and the damage caused by the recent over-withdrawal of the state in many developing and transitional economies. It presents reasonable suggestions in the field of social policy, decentralisation, regulation and participation. Yet, the defin…
Child Poverty in Comparative Perspective
From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus
Adjustment and Development in Africa: Toward an Assessment
From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus
Journal Article From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus? Get access From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus? Edited by (Giovanni Andrea) Cornia and Gerald K. Helleiner. (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xxiv + 417. £45.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333613619, 0 3336 l362 7.) Finn Tarp Finn Tarp University of Copenhagen Search for ot…
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
Children and the Transition to the Market Economy: Safety Nets and Social Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
In East and Central Europe transition from a socialist to a market-oriented form of economic organizations risks directly or indirectly the essential needs of children. This book explores how these dangers can be avoided by protecting vital human needs and by incorporating concern for basic human needs into the economic policies and social welfare infrastructure of the countries. This book is organized into 2 parts and 8 chapters. Part 1 presents…
Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s
While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox
IMF adjustment policies and approaches and the needs of children
Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: Evidence and interpretations
Farm size, land yields and the agricultural production function: An analysis for fifteen developing countries
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure the association between income inequality and life ex…
Income Distribution under Latin America's New Left Regimes
This paper reviews the decline in income inequality that has taken place over 2002-2007 in most Latin American countries against the background of its steady increase over 1980-2002. The paper analyzes then the factors that could explain this trend reversal. It focuses in particular on favorable external conditions, cyclical factors, improvements in the distribution of educational achievements and the subsequent drop in skill-premium, and changes…
Social Funds in Stabilization and Adjustment Programmes: A Critique
This article evaluates the impact of the large number of Social Funds (SFs) which were introduced over the last fifteen years to offset the increase in poverty induced by adjustment. SFs have enjoyed greater visibility and financial support by the donor community than traditional social security programmes, and raised expectations about improvements in living conditions in developing countries. Notwithstanding the visibility and administrative fl…
Sources of food price volatility and child malnutrition in Niger and Malawi
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
IMF adjustment policies and approaches and the needs of children
Rural vs Urban Saving Behaviour: Evidence from an ILO Collection of Household Surveys
Developing the Poorest Countries: New Ideas from the 2010 UNCTAD LDC Report
Rural vs Urban Saving Behaviour: Evidence from an ILO Collection of Household Surveys
A survey of cross-sectional and time-series literature on factors affecting child welfare
A summary and interpretation of the evidence
Farm size, land yields and the agricultural production function: An analysis for fifteen developing countries
The Impact of World Recession on Children: A Study Prepared for Unicef
Adjustment with a Human Face: Vol. 1: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth
IMF adjustment policies and approaches and the needs of children
Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s
While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox
Children and the Transition to the Market Economy: Safety Nets and Social Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
In East and Central Europe transition from a socialist to a market-oriented form of economic organizations risks directly or indirectly the essential needs of children. This book explores how these dangers can be avoided by protecting vital human needs and by incorporating concern for basic human needs into the economic policies and social welfare infrastructure of the countries. This book is organized into 2 parts and 8 chapters. Part 1 presents…
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus
Journal Article From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus? Get access From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus? Edited by (Giovanni Andrea) Cornia and Gerald K. Helleiner. (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xxiv + 417. £45.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 333613619, 0 3336 l362 7.) Finn Tarp Finn Tarp University of Copenhagen Search for ot…
From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus
Adjustment and Development in Africa: Toward an Assessment
Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: Evidence and interpretations
Convergence on Governance Issues, Dissent on Economic Policies
WDR97 is an attempt to reconcile the ‘Washington consensus’ with the ‘East Asian model’. It underscores the complementarity existing between state and market, the need to reinvigorate the state's institutions, and the damage caused by the recent over-withdrawal of the state in many developing and transitional economies. It presents reasonable suggestions in the field of social policy, decentralisation, regulation and participation. Yet, the defin…
Child Poverty in Comparative Perspective
Child Poverty and Deprivation in the Industrialized Countries, 1945-1995
The authors in this volume utilize a common analytical framework to evaluate how economic, family structure, and public policy changes affected the well-being of children in the industrialized countries in the West and the East from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1990s. Throughout the industrialized world, the living standards and social well-being of children improved remarkably over these five decades. But the quarter-century 'golde…
Social Funds in Stabilization and Adjustment Programmes: A Critique
This article evaluates the impact of the large number of Social Funds (SFs) which were introduced over the last fifteen years to offset the increase in poverty induced by adjustment. SFs have enjoyed greater visibility and financial support by the donor community than traditional social security programmes, and raised expectations about improvements in living conditions in developing countries. Notwithstanding the visibility and administrative fl…
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure the association between income inequality and life ex…
Pro-Poor Macroeconomics: Potential and Limitations
This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allow
Pro-Poor Macroeconomics: Potential and Limitations (Social Policy in a Development Context)
Income Distribution under Latin America's New Left Regimes
This paper reviews the decline in income inequality that has taken place over 2002-2007 in most Latin American countries against the background of its steady increase over 1980-2002. The paper analyzes then the factors that could explain this trend reversal. It focuses in particular on favorable external conditions, cyclical factors, improvements in the distribution of educational achievements and the subsequent drop in skill-premium, and changes…
Developing the Poorest Countries: New Ideas from the 2010 UNCTAD LDC Report
Falling Inequality In Latin America Policy Changes And Lessons
This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide th…
Economics (28 works) · Political science (18 works) · Development economics (17 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Inequality (7 works) · Developing country (6 works)