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Content Inside: Economic Policy Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements Ravi Kanbur Rome 19 January 2001 1 Economic Policy Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements Ravi Kanbur Cornell University Contents 1. Introduction 2. Disagreements Over What and Between Whom? 3. Some Areas of Agreement 4. The Nature of Disagreements I: Aggregation 5. The Nature of Disagreements II: Time Horizon 6. The Nature of Disagreements III: Market Structure and Power 7. A Seeming Disagreement: The Growth Red Herring 8. On Policy Messaging: Negotiation versus Dialogue 9. Conclusion 1. Introduction T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics Cornell University. This paper is based on an invited presentation to the Swedish Parliamentary Commission on Global Development (Globkom) on September 22 2000. I am grateful to Mia Horn-af-Rantzien Secretary of the Commission for her encouragement to produce a written version of the presentation. These ideas have also been presented at meetings organized by the Canadian Ministry of Finance in Ottawa the World Food Day Symposium at Cornell University the PREM network of the World Bank and the Faculty of Social Studies seminar at the University of Warwick. I am grateful to the participants in these meetings for their constructive comments. The observations in this paper are based on my operational experiences over the last few years. For more formal academic assessment of the literature on distribution poverty and development see R. Kanbur Income Distribution and Development in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.) Handbook of Income Distribution Volume I North Holland 2000 and R. Kanbur Poverty Reduction Strategies: Five Perennial Questions in R. Culpeper and C. McAskie (eds.) Towards Autonomous Development In Africa The North-South Institute Ottawa 1998. For an assessment of the implications for development assistance see R. Kanbur T. Sandler and K. Morrison The Future of Development ...

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