Michael Lipton

Biographic Data

ID80063
NAMEMichael Lipton
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMELipton
SIGNATURELIPTON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sussex
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS93
TOTAL CITATIONS499
AUTHOR COUNT92
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX9

  • Toward a food secure future: Ensuring food security for sustainable human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessPedro Conceição, Sebastian Levine et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2016Cited by: 6References: 23

  • The Great Escape. Angus Deaton

    Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2015

    This book is rigorous and measurement-aware, yet engaging, clear, jargon-free, and as useful for non-specialists as for professionals. It is based on a lifetime of research, yet also reflects Deato

  • Africa’s National-accounts Mess 1

    Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2013

    Compare Devarajan (Citation2013).2. Population census data for a few countries, notably Nigeria (pp. 56–61), are indeed politicised and appalling, but Jerven may over-generalise from that. He ignores the Demographic and Health and World Health Organization surveys, and the related use of fertility, mortality and migration data to infer population growth even with bad or absent censuses.3. 'The book is based on research visits to Botswana, Ghana, …

  • Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa: How big will the economic dividend be

    Robert Eastwood, Michael LiptonARTICLEPopulation Studies2011Cited by: 14References: 43

    In mid-demographic-transition, many Asian countries enjoyed a large demographic 'dividend': extra economic growth owing to falling dependant/workforce ratios, or slower natural increase, or both. We estimate the dividend, 1985-2025, in sub-Saharan Africa and its populous countries. Dependency and natural increase peaked around 1985, 20 years after Asia. The UN projects an acceleration of the subsequent slow falls but disregards slowish declines i…

  • Does Aid Work in India?: A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance

    Michael Lipton, John ToyeBOOKDoes Aid Work in India?2010

    Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged..Yet Does Aid Work in India?, first published in 1990, remains of great interest as a study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It id…

  • Chapter 65 Farm Size

    Open AccessRobert Eastwood, Michael Lipton et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Agricultural…2010

  • From Policy Aims and Small-farm Characteristics to Farm Science Needs

    Open AccessMichael LiptonARTICLEWorld Development2010Cited by: 3References: 11

  • Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs

    Michael LiptonBOOKLand reform in developing countries2009

    Land reforms are laws that are intended, and likely, to cut poverty by raising the poor’s share of land rights. That raises questions about property rights as old as moral philosophy, and issues of efficiency and fairness that dominate policy from Bolivia to Nepal. Classic reforms directly transfer land from rich to poor. However, much else has been marketed as land reform: the restriction of tenancy, but also its de-restriction; collectivisation…

  • Bottom Billion: Countries or People

    Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2008

    The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it Paul Collier Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 224, £16.99, ISBN: 0195311450 This is a brilliant boo

  • Plant breeding and poverty: Can transgenic seeds replicate the ‘Green Revolution’ as a source of gains for the poor? 1

    Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2007

    Improved farm technology helps all main groups of the poor - small farmers, farmworkers, other low-wage labour - when it raises labour value-productivity, but raises land and/or water value-productivity faster; and cuts staples prices, but raises smallholders' total factor productivity faster. From 1965 the Green Revolution walked these two tightropes largely by luck. Though targeting bigger piles of rice and wheat, it cut poverty through consump…

  • Premature deagriculturalisation? Land inequality and rural dependency in Limpopo province, South Africa

    Robert Eastwood, Johann F Kirsten et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2006

    Cross-national regressions reveal abnormally low agricultural workforce shares, given GNP, in developing countries that had historically concentrated land into large capital-intensive farms. We argue that such deagriculturalisation was premature, since its concomitant labour shedding has undesirable outcomes. In a new South African survey, a large proportion of rural households (and working-age persons) was ‘dependent’, relying for income almost …

  • Copperplating One's Navel

    Open AccessMichael LiptonARTICLEIDS Bulletin2006

  • Reconnecting Agricultural Technology to Human Development

    Michael Lipton, Saurabh Sinha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2002

    Human development has repeatedly been transformed by huge gains in food production; especially the ‘Neolithic settlement’, as former hunter-gatherers became farmers. However, even in Europe alone, this took many centuries to spread. Until about 1750, technical progress raised on-farm productivity too slowly, at national level, to achieve rapid increase in food availability or employment income. Yet between 1750 and 1914, new farm techniques (bett…

  • "Poverty and "Damaging Fluctuations: How do they Relate

    Open AccessSaurabh Sinha, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian and African…2002Cited by: 5References: 55

    Recent panel data sets suggest that in some places perhaps half of the poor are not poor all the time, and also as much as 80 percent of "poverty severity" may be due to large fluctuations through time. Some of these dynamics are due to life-cycle events, but much of it represents "damaging fluctuations." These cause immediate damage, and may trigger responses leading to chronic poverty or intergenerational poverty. Moreover, just the possibility…

  • Successes in Anti-Poverty

    Gary S Fields, Michael LiptonARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2000

    This book explores successful efforts to alleviate poverty, and enquires whether any of the features of these policies or projects can be imported into environments where poverty has not yet declined significantly. Using cross-national data the book demonstrates that there is substantial scope for policies to reduce poverty - some countries have much lower poverty incidence than would be identifies rules that appear to underlie success in program…

  • The impact of changes in human fertility on poverty

    Robert Eastwood, Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1999

    Household survey data for developing and transitional economies are used to estimate the effect of fertility (crude birth rate net of infant deaths) on private consumption poverty. Cross-national regressions indicate that higher fertility increases poverty both by retarding economic growth and by skewing distribution against the poor. Our median country in 1980 had 'dollar-a-day' poverty incidence of 18.9 per cent; had it reduced its fertility by…

  • Agro-Pessimism and Agro-Realism: Land, Labour, and Livelihoods in South Africa's Poorest and Most Northern Province

    Open AccessTim Clynick, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    contextualised by a further two excellent agro-economic and environmental analysis of farming systems in this zone) suggest a short, easy answer to all three: no to the first and second, and, to the third, nothing or very little. Consider the unanimity of the findings of these four very methodologically (and ideologically) diverse studies contained in part two of volume two: 1. A model simulating redistributive land reform for all African househo…

  • Populist Agrarian Visions and Rural Livelihoods in Kwazulu-Natal

    C Mather, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    The introduction to an edited collection normally sets the context and provides support for the arguments presented in the contributions that follow. Michael Lipton's, Frank Ellis', and Merle Lipton's introduction to Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa, Volume 2: KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province plays a rather different role in that their position is largely not supported by the contributors to the KwaZulu-Natal section of this …

  • Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture in the Western Cape

    Open AccessW Beinart, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998

    This volume results from a major and well-funded research project into strategies for land reform and the enhancement of rural livelihoods in South Africa, in which Merle and Michael Lipton have played an important coordinating role. A formidable array of researchers have made significant inputs. The chapters represent the work of some of the best informed specialists on South African rural and agrarian issues. The Western Cape is unusual in the …

  • The Democratic Transition and Rural Livelihoods

    Open AccessDavid Lincoln, Michael Lipton et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1998Cited by: 1

  • Growing Mountain, Shrinking Mouse? Indian Poverty and British Bilateral Aid: I. Introduction and Summary

    Open AccessMichael LiptonARTICLEModern Asian Studies1996Cited by: 1References: 2

    In the book compiled by Mervyn Jones after Kingsley Martin's death in 1969, Asa Briggs recalled that 'no country meant more to Kingsley Martin than India'. Martin's writing, campaigning and travelling all confirm this. His life also confirms his priorities for development and poverty reduction. Famously, however, he was not an economist, and he does not seem to have brought these concerns together, or to have asked how aid might best be used to h…

  • Restructuring South African Agriculture

    Open AccessMerle and, Michael LiptonARTICLEIDS Bulletin1994References: 2

    There is disagreement about the need for agricultural reform in South Africa. Some argue that agriculture (already down to 6-8 per cent of GDP in South Africa) is, inevitably, a declining sector in developing economies and that the future lies with industrialization and urbanization. They argue further that Black farming -destroyed by apartheid -is now in a hopeless state; that Blacks, understandably, don't want to farm; that, indeed, the shift o…

  • Urban bias: Of consequences, classes and causality

    Michael LiptonARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1993

    Choice‐theoretic accounts of urban bias (UB) in LDCs are popular, because they also ‘explain’ rural bias in richer countries. Such misguided elegance notwithstanding, class‐theoretic (not simply Marxist/productionist) accounts are preferable. Why? (1) UB alleges persistently inefficient and/or unfair (i) anti‐rural outcomes, (ii) intra‐rurally, biases towards rural elites who in return deliver surpluses townwards. (2) If UB declines for one outco…

  • Including the poor: Proceedings of a symposium organized by the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute

    Michael Lipton, Jacques Van Der GaagBOOKIncluding the poor1993

    No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Including the poorProceedings of a symposium organized by the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research InstituteAuthors/Editors: Michael Lipton, Jacques van der GaagMichael Lipton, Jacques van der Gaaghttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-2674-0SectionsAboutPDF (2.9 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The incidence of poverty has fa…

  • Stabilization and structural reform in India∗

    Robert Cassen, Vijay Johnson et al.ARTICLEContemporary South Asia1993

    (1993). Stabilization and structural reform in India. Contemporary South Asia: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 165-198