# Lyn Squire

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lyn_Squire
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lyn_Squire.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Squire
> Source revision: 1227759298
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|American economist}}
'''Lyn Squire''' is an American economist who was born in [South Wales](/source/South_Wales). He held several positions within the [World Bank](/source/World_Bank)'s hierarchy over a 25-year career. While there, he co-authored, with Herman G. Van Der Tak, the 1975 work ''Economic analysis of projects''. He was one of the lead authors of the ''World Development Report 1990: Poverty'' where the international $1 a day poverty line was proposed.<ref name="worldbank">{{cite web|url=https://oralhistory.worldbank.org/en/archive/oralhistory/persondetail/squire-lyn|website=oralhistory.worldbank.org|title=History|access-date=2024-04-03}}</ref><ref name="theigc">{{cite web|url=https://www.theigc.org/people/lyn-squire|title=Lyn Squire {{pipe}} International Growth Centre|website=theigc.org|access-date=2024-04-03}}</ref>

== Academic Service==
* The Editor of the [Middle East Development Journal](/source/Middle_East_Development_Journal)
* Founding president and ex-director of the [Global Development Network](/source/Global_Development_Network)

==Selected publications==
* Squire, L. (1993). Fighting poverty. ''American Economic Review'', 83(2), 377–382.
* Lundberg, M., & Squire, L. (2003). The simultaneous evolution of growth and inequality. ''Economic Journal'', 113(487), 326–344.
* Squire, L., & [Van der Tak, H. G.](/source/Van_der_Tak%2C_H._G.) (1975). ''Economic analysis of projects''. World Bank Publications.<ref>For reviews and analysis of the work see: Jenkins, G. P. (1997). Project Analysis and the World Bank. ''American Economic Review'', 87(2), 38–42.;  Ordish, G. (1976). Economic Analysis of Projects. Outlook on Agriculture, 9(1), 36-36 and Ward WA. (2019) Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory versus Practice at the World Bank 1960 to 2015. ''Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis'';10(1):124-144.   Also Robert Brent has written a whole book (Brent, R. J. (1990 and 1998 2nd edition). Cost-benefit analysis for developing countries. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.) outlining, evaluating and expanding the Squire and Van de Tak approach to project appraisal.</ref>
* Barnum, H. N., & Squire, L. (1979). An econometric application of the theory of the farm-household. ''Journal of Development Economics'', 6(1), 79–102.<ref>Summarised in pages 128-134 of Frank Ellis (1988) Peasant Economics: Farm Household and agrarian development, Cambridge</ref>
* Deininger, K., & Squire, L. (1996). A new data set measuring income inequality. ''World Bank Economic Review'', 10(3), 565–591.
* Deininger, K., & Squire, L. (1998). New ways of looking at old issues: inequality and growth. ''Journal of development economics'', 57(2), 259–287.
* [Bruno, M.](/source/Michael_Bruno_(economist)), [Ravallion, M.](/source/Martin_Ravallion), & Squire, L. (1996). ''Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues'' (Vol. 1563). World Bank Publications.
* [Stiglitz, Joseph E.](/source/Joseph_Stiglitz) & Lyn Squire (1999) International Development: Is It Possible? ''Foreign Policy'', 110, 138–151.
* [Kanbur, R.](/source/Ravi_Kanbur), & Squire, L. (1999). ''The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions''. WP 99-24 Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics. Cornell University,
* [Milanovic, B.](/source/Branko_Milanovi%C4%87), & Squire, L. (2005). Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 3571, World Bank, Washington, DC.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Squire, Lyn}}
Category:1943 births
Category:Living people
Category:American development economists
Category:Welsh emigrants to the United States

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lyn Squire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Squire) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Squire?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.