François Bourguignon
Appearance
François Bourguignon | |
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Chief Economist of the World Bank | |
In office 2003–2007 | |
President | James Wolfensohn Paul Wolfowitz |
Preceded by | Nicholas Stern |
Succeeded by | Justin Yifu Lin |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 22 May 1945
Education | ENSAE ParisTech (BS) Pierre and Marie Curie University (DEA) University of Western Ontario (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | Paris School of Economics |
Doctoral students | Bernard Salanié |
Awards | Dan David Prize (2016) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is the former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics,[1] and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[2] in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize. He focus on the study of Income and Wealth inequality, Economy wide country studies (Brazil, China, India…), International Trade and Trade policy, Education, and Wealth, income, redistribution and tax policy.
Education
Trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris (French National School of Statistics and Economics), François Bourguignon has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.[3]
Selected publications
Books
- Bourguignon, François; Atkinson, Anthony B. (2000). Handbook of income distribution. Amsterdam New York: Elvesier. ISBN 9780444816313.
- Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools. Washington, DC: World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780821354919.
- Bourguignon, François; Lustig, Nora; Ferreira, Francisco (2005). The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America. Washington, DC New York: World Bank Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780821358610.
- Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan World Bank. ISBN 9780821357781.
- Bourguignon, François (2015). The Globalization of Inequality. Translated by Scott-Railton, Thomas. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691160528.
Chapters in books
- Bourguignon, François (2005), "The effect of economic growth on social structures", in Aghion, Philippe; Durlauf, Steven N. (eds.), Handbook of economic growth, vol. 1B, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1701–1748, ISBN 9780444520432.
- Bourguignon, François; Stern, Nicholas; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2006), "Evaluating the poverty impact of economic policies: some analytical challenges", in Mody, Ashoka; Pattillo, Catherine (eds.), Macroeconomic policies and poverty, London New York: Routledge, ISBN 041570071X. Pdf version.
- Bourguignon, François; Chakravarty, Satay R. (2009), "Multidimensional poverty orderings: theory and applications", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 337–362, ISBN 9780199239115.
Journal articles
- Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). "The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools". World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. hdl:10986/15090.
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(help) - Bourguignon, François; Sundberg, Mark (May 2007). "Aid effectiveness: opening the black box" (PDF). The American Economic Review. 97 (2). American Economic Association via JSTOR: 316–321. doi:10.1257/aer.97.2.316. JSTOR 30034468.
- Bourguignon, François; Ferrera, Francisco H.G.; Walton, Michael (August 2007). "Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: a research agenda". The Journal of Economic Inequality. 5 (2). Springer: 235–256. doi:10.1007/s10888-006-9042-8. S2CID 54090211.
- Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). "The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools". Open Knowledge Repository. Palgrave Macmillan World Bank. hdl:10986/6586.
See also
References
- ^ "François Bourguignon biography". World Bank Website. Archived from the original on 14 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ "François Bourguignon personal page". Paris School of Economics Website. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ "François Bourguignon CV" (PDF). Paris School of Economics Website.