François Bourguignon
Encyclopedia
François Bourguignon is the former Chief Economist
(2003-2007) of the World Bank
. He is the Director of the Paris School of Economics
, and was formerly a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
in Paris.
World Bank Chief Economist
The World Bank Chief Economist provides intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels...
(2003-2007) of the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
. He is the Director of the Paris School of Economics
Paris School of Economics
The Paris School of Economics , created on 21 December 2006 in Paris, France, is a French economics department. The EEP combines researchers from several institutions, including DELTA and INRA...
, and was formerly a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
in Paris.
Recent publications
- Handbook of Income Distribution (edited with Anthony Atkinson), North-Holland, 2000.
- The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools (edited with Luiz Pereira da Silva), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003
- The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America. (edited with Francisco Ferreira and Nora LustigNora LustigNora Lustig 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...
), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004 - Evaluating the poverty impact of economic policies: some analytical challenges, (with Luiz Pereira da Silva and Nicholas Stern), Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction, edited by Ashoka Mody New York : Routledge, 2005.
- The Effect of Economic Growth on Social Structures, in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds), Handbook of Economic Growth, North-Holland, 2005.
- Equity, Efficiency and Inequality Traps. A Research Agenda (with Francisco H.G. Ferrera and Michael Walton), Journal of Economic Inequality, August 2007, Vol. 5, No. 2: 235-256.
- Effectiveness—Opening the Black Box (with Mark Sundberg), The American Economic Review, May 2007, Vol. 97, No. 2, 316-320.