Nancy Birdsall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 180290 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy Birdsall |
| PRENOMES | Nancy |
| SOBRENOME | Birdsall |
| ASSINATURA | BIRDSALL N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Center for Global Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9010-7455 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The World Bank’s East Asian Miracle
The 1993 publication of a World Bank book on the East Asian Miracle explained the extraordinarily rapid growth of Japan and seven other economies of East Asia (at 5 percent a year) between 1965 and 1990 as grounded in those economies’ adherence to market “fundamentals”—sound macro management, “shared” growth policies, investment in human capital—combined with an “export push” which fostered the technological learning that drove those countries’ h…
Democratic Deliberation and the Resource Curse
Oil and gas discoveries in developing countries are often associated with shortsighted economic policies and, in response, with calls to insulate resource management from populist impulses. The authors report on a randomized experiment that tested methods to overcome this apparent tension between sound resource governance and democratic politics. Soon after Tanzania's discovery of major natural gas reserves, the authors invited a nationally repre…
The impact of civil conflict on infant and child malnutrition, Nigeria, 2013
The new millennium brought renewed attention to improving the health of women and children. In this same period, direct deaths from conflicts have declined worldwide, but civilian deaths associated with conflicts have increased. Nigeria is among the most conflict-prone countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially recently with the Boko Haram insurgency in the north. This paper uses two data sources, the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey for Niger…
Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
This book presents the findings & recommendations of the UN Millennium Project to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It describes the importance of the MDGs and gives an explanation of the progress. The book provides recommendations to be implemented at the country level
Does the Rise of the Middle Class Lock in Good Government in the Developing World
Thomas Piketty's Capital and the Developing World
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a tour de force—a compelling and accessible read that presents an eloquent and convincing warning about the future of capitalism. Capitalism, Piketty argues, suffers from an inherent tendency to generate an explosive spiral of increasing inequality of wealth and income. This inegalitarian dynamic of capitalism is not due to textbook failures of capitalist markets (for example, natural monopo…
The Strugglers
The Washington Consensus
This chapter examines the ‘Washington Consensus’ in Latin America, policies laid out by John Williamson in 1989. For its advocates, the Consensus reflected a doctrine of economic freedom that was best suited for the political democracies to which many Latin countries had returned after a long spell of military dictatorships. For its opponents, the Consensus was an unjust set of neoliberal policies, imposed on hapless countries by the Washington-b…
Economic Policy Changes and Wage Differentials in Latin America
This article presents estimates of the impact of changes in liberalization policies on wage differentials by schooling level using a new high‐quality data set for 18 Latin American countries for 1977–98. The method controls for all fixed and time‐varying country characteristics, some of which may affect the policies themselves. The results indicate that liberalizing policy changes overall have had a short‐run disequalizing effect of expanding wag…
How to Help Poor Countries
THE YEAR 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summit meeting of heads of state, in NewYork, leaders of wealthy nations will emphasize their commitment to deeper debt relief and increased aid programs for developing countries. The Millennium Development Goals, the centerpiece of the conference's program, call for halving the levels of world poverty and hunger by 2015. The summit will focus on increasing inter…
Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Growth
This chapter examines the role of human capital investment in lowering the growth of resource-abundant countries. It is shown that resource abundance leads to high initial levels of income inequality, making it difficult to generate a virtuous circle of human capital accumulation and equitable growth. However, this virtuous circle is achievable if governments can resist the temptation to ignore the quality of schooling and pursue a capital intens…
Saving Iraq from Its Oil
AS THE United States, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Governing Council struggle to determine what form Iraq's next government should take, there is one question that, more than any other, may prove critical to the country's future: how to handle its vast oil wealth. Oil riches are far from the blessing they are often assumed to be. In fact, countries often end up poor precisely because they are oil rich. Oil and mineral wealth can be bad for g…
Winners and Losers
Getting Serious on Inequality
That Silly Inequality Debate
Beyond Racism
Population Matters
This book explores the impact of demographic change on economic growth and poverty in developing countries. The papers in this volume present some new themes and reinforce others. It is shown that rapid population growth had a quantitatively negative impact on the pace of aggregate economic growth in developing countries. Rapid fertility decline made a relevant contribution to reducing the incidence and severity of poverty. The impact of rapid de…
Why Inequality Matters
Many industrialized countries, developing countries, and countries that have recently made the transition from communism to market-oriented economies are characterized by high and increasing income inequality. Trends in income inequality have been understood to have ethical significance for different reasons. Some have argued that lessening income inequality is a valuable goal in itself. This essay, on the other hand, focuses on three instrumenta…
Washington Contentious
Population Matters. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World
I. SETTING THE STAGE 1. How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues 2. The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised 3. Dependency Burdens in the Developing World II. POPULATION CHANGE AND THE ECONOMY 4. Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives 5. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Inequality 6. Saving, Wealth, and Population 7. Cumulative Causality, Economic Growt…
Distributive Justice and Economic Development
This work provides a dialogue on the issues of social equity, distributive justice, and economic development and will be important reading for development economists and Latin American scholars
What Money Can't Buy
Managing Inequality in the Developing World
Essay| November 01 1999 Managing Inequality in the Developing World Nancy Birdsall Nancy Birdsall Nancy Birdsall is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This article draws on material from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Inequality and Markets in a Globalizing World. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1999) 98 (631): 376–381. https://doi.org/10.1525/…
Education in Latin America
Although the governments of the region have increased their spending on health and education, the results have been unsatisfactory. Expenditure on these services has traditionally been considered as a transfer rather than an investment. The accumulation of human capital has been relatively slow, with negative effects on economic growth, and it has been distributed unevenly among the different income groups, thereby further increasing inequality
After the crisis
Winners and Losers
The Strugglers
Population Matters. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World
I. SETTING THE STAGE 1. How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues 2. The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised 3. Dependency Burdens in the Developing World II. POPULATION CHANGE AND THE ECONOMY 4. Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives 5. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Inequality 6. Saving, Wealth, and Population 7. Cumulative Causality, Economic Growt…
Does the Rise of the Middle Class Lock in Good Government in the Developing World
Saving Iraq from Its Oil
AS THE United States, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Governing Council struggle to determine what form Iraq's next government should take, there is one question that, more than any other, may prove critical to the country's future: how to handle its vast oil wealth. Oil riches are far from the blessing they are often assumed to be. In fact, countries often end up poor precisely because they are oil rich. Oil and mineral wealth can be bad for g…
Public inputs and child schooling in Brazil
Income and Other Factors Influencing Fertility in China
China has achieved remarkable success in increasing life expectancy and reducing fertility. There is no question that much of this success is due to concerted government efforts. Low fertility is in part the outcome of government efforts to raise age at marriage, to provide free contraceptives and abortion, to use local birth quotas and peer pressure to discourage pregnancy, and, increasingl, to provide economic incentives and disincentives. The …
Life Is Unfair
xactly 150 years after publication of the Communist Manifesto, inequality looms large on the global agenda. In the United States, the income of the poorest 20 percent of households has declined steadily since the early 1970s. Meanwhile, the income of the richest 20 percent has increased by 15 percent and that of the top 1 percent by more than 100 percent. In Asia, the high concentrations of wealth and power produced by strong growth have been giv…
Analytical Approaches to the Relationship of Population Growth and Development
Over the past two decades four principal analytical approaches to population growth/economic development relationships have emerged: research on macro- and micro-consequences of fertility for development. This article describes the major lines of research in these areas with special attention to their implications for policy design. (authors)
Washington Contentious
How to Help Poor Countries
THE YEAR 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summit meeting of heads of state, in NewYork, leaders of wealthy nations will emphasize their commitment to deeper debt relief and increased aid programs for developing countries. The Millennium Development Goals, the centerpiece of the conference's program, call for halving the levels of world poverty and hunger by 2015. The summit will focus on increasing inter…
Why Inequality Matters
Many industrialized countries, developing countries, and countries that have recently made the transition from communism to market-oriented economies are characterized by high and increasing income inequality. Trends in income inequality have been understood to have ethical significance for different reasons. Some have argued that lessening income inequality is a valuable goal in itself. This essay, on the other hand, focuses on three instrumenta…
Women and Population Studies
Democratic Deliberation and the Resource Curse
Oil and gas discoveries in developing countries are often associated with shortsighted economic policies and, in response, with calls to insulate resource management from populist impulses. The authors report on a randomized experiment that tested methods to overcome this apparent tension between sound resource governance and democratic politics. Soon after Tanzania's discovery of major natural gas reserves, the authors invited a nationally repre…
Economic Policy Changes and Wage Differentials in Latin America
This article presents estimates of the impact of changes in liberalization policies on wage differentials by schooling level using a new high‐quality data set for 18 Latin American countries for 1977–98. The method controls for all fixed and time‐varying country characteristics, some of which may affect the policies themselves. The results indicate that liberalizing policy changes overall have had a short‐run disequalizing effect of expanding wag…
Thomas Piketty's Capital and the Developing World
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a tour de force—a compelling and accessible read that presents an eloquent and convincing warning about the future of capitalism. Capitalism, Piketty argues, suffers from an inherent tendency to generate an explosive spiral of increasing inequality of wealth and income. This inegalitarian dynamic of capitalism is not due to textbook failures of capitalist markets (for example, natural monopo…
Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Unobserved Human Capital
Fertility and Economic Change in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Europe
There is a sensible economic interpretation for the rise in English fertility in the eighteenth century and the subsequent decline in the nineteenth century. Smith attributes changing fertility rates in England to the process of household formation. An economic interpretation means that the long-run increase and decline in fertility can be related to changes in the economic enviroment that influence marriage and fertility behavior. There is a pos…
Why Males Earn More
Income Distribution and Fertility Change
Women and Population Studies
Health Planning and Population Policy in Africa
Despite common interests, health planners and population planners have apparently different objectives: respectively to improve health and reduce mortality, and to reduce rapid rates of population growth. To the extent that reductions in mortality increase population growth, the objectives appear contradictory. seeming contradiction has been heightened by demographic evidence that post-war rapid population growth in developing countries was large…
Income Distribution and Fertility Change
"Reply to Adrienne Germain's Comments on "Women and Population Studies
Analytical Approaches to the Relationship of Population Growth and Development
Over the past two decades four principal analytical approaches to population growth/economic development relationships have emerged: research on macro- and micro-consequences of fertility for development. This article describes the major lines of research in these areas with special attention to their implications for policy design. (authors)
Population and Poverty in the Developing World
The association between poverty and rapid population growth in developing countries is examined. Analysis of current demographic data revealed a shift in the association between low income and high fertility and mortality rates. It is noted that the effects of rapid population growth upon the poor operate at the national level by influencing factor and product prices and the per capita availability of investment resources. Theories of the relatio…
Fertility and Economic Change in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Europe
There is a sensible economic interpretation for the rise in English fertility in the eighteenth century and the subsequent decline in the nineteenth century. Smith attributes changing fertility rates in England to the process of household formation. An economic interpretation means that the long-run increase and decline in fertility can be related to changes in the economic enviroment that influence marriage and fertility behavior. There is a pos…
Income and Other Factors Influencing Fertility in China
China has achieved remarkable success in increasing life expectancy and reducing fertility. There is no question that much of this success is due to concerted government efforts. Low fertility is in part the outcome of government efforts to raise age at marriage, to provide free contraceptives and abortion, to use local birth quotas and peer pressure to discourage pregnancy, and, increasingl, to provide economic incentives and disincentives. The …
Public inputs and child schooling in Brazil
Why Males Earn More
The Reward for Good Timing
Trade Policy and Industrial Pollution in Latin America
It is commonly assumed by economists and environmentalists alike that greater economtc "openness" will lead to increased industrial pollution in developing countries. This paper challenges the "pollution haven" hypothesis, arguing that liberalization of trade regimes and increased foreign investment in Latin America have not been associated with pollution-intensive industrial development. From case studies and econometric evidence, we conclude th…
Inequality and Growth Reconsidered
East Asian economies have experienced rapid growth over three decades, with relatively low levels of income inequality, and appear to have also achieved reductions in income inequality. We argue that policies that reduced poverty and income inequality, such as emphasizing high-quality basic education and augmenting labor demand, also stimulated growth. Closing two virtuous circles, rapid growth and reduced inequality led to higher demand for, and…
Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Unobserved Human Capital
Pathways to Growth
The authors of this volume analyze the policies that led to East Asia's economic success, including those affecting human resources, savings, the financial sector, trade and institutions, and examine the lessons these policies carry for Latin America. The genesis of this book was an IDB-sponsored conference, Development Experience of the Latin American and East Asian Countries held in Santiago, Chile in June 1994. The conference was attended by p…
Education in Latin America
Although the governments of the region have increased their spending on health and education, the results have been unsatisfactory. Expenditure on these services has traditionally been considered as a transfer rather than an investment. The accumulation of human capital has been relatively slow, with negative effects on economic growth, and it has been distributed unevenly among the different income groups, thereby further increasing inequality
Life Is Unfair
xactly 150 years after publication of the Communist Manifesto, inequality looms large on the global agenda. In the United States, the income of the poorest 20 percent of households has declined steadily since the early 1970s. Meanwhile, the income of the richest 20 percent has increased by 15 percent and that of the top 1 percent by more than 100 percent. In Asia, the high concentrations of wealth and power produced by strong growth have been giv…
Managing Inequality in the Developing World
Essay| November 01 1999 Managing Inequality in the Developing World Nancy Birdsall Nancy Birdsall Nancy Birdsall is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This article draws on material from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Inequality and Markets in a Globalizing World. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1999) 98 (631): 376–381. https://doi.org/10.1525/…
Distributive Justice and Economic Development
This work provides a dialogue on the issues of social equity, distributive justice, and economic development and will be important reading for development economists and Latin American scholars
What Money Can't Buy
Beyond Racism
Population Matters
This book explores the impact of demographic change on economic growth and poverty in developing countries. The papers in this volume present some new themes and reinforce others. It is shown that rapid population growth had a quantitatively negative impact on the pace of aggregate economic growth in developing countries. Rapid fertility decline made a relevant contribution to reducing the incidence and severity of poverty. The impact of rapid de…
Why Inequality Matters
Many industrialized countries, developing countries, and countries that have recently made the transition from communism to market-oriented economies are characterized by high and increasing income inequality. Trends in income inequality have been understood to have ethical significance for different reasons. Some have argued that lessening income inequality is a valuable goal in itself. This essay, on the other hand, focuses on three instrumenta…
Washington Contentious
Population Matters. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World
I. SETTING THE STAGE 1. How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues 2. The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised 3. Dependency Burdens in the Developing World II. POPULATION CHANGE AND THE ECONOMY 4. Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives 5. Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Inequality 6. Saving, Wealth, and Population 7. Cumulative Causality, Economic Growt…
Economics (33 obras) · Political science (28 obras) · Development economics (17 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (16 obras) · Demography (13 obras) · Population (13 obras) · Economic growth (12 obras) · Inequality (11 obras) · Law (11 obras)