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Nora LustigSamuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Research interests: development, poverty and inequality, social policies, economics of Latin America Department of Economics Stone Center for Latin American Studies 204 Tilton Hall 504-862-8347 blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/author/nora-lustig www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=375 www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2005/12/people.htm Short bioNora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Prior to joining Tulane she was Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University; Director of the Poverty Group at UNDP; President and Professor of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico; Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank; Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution; and Professor at the Center of Economic Studies at the Colegio de Mexico. Her research has focused on poverty and inequality, social policies and social protection with particular emphasis on Latin America. Her classic Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy (Brookings Institution) was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. Dr. Lustig was co-founder and President of LACEA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and co-director of the 2000/1 World Development Report Attacking Poverty. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. A profile of her intellectual contribution to the area of social protection can be found at www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2005/12/people.htm. |
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