{{short description|Argentine economist}} {{Infobox economist
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<!-- Information --> | name = Nora Lustig | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|1|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | death_date = | death_place = | institution = Tulane University | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley | field = Development economics, inequality and poverty, Latin American economics | website = {{URL|https://noralustig.tulane.edu/}} | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = plu143 }}
'''Nora Lustig''' (born January 13, 1951) is an Argentine economist. She is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the Director of the CEQ Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.<ref name="noralustig.tulane.edu">{{cite web|url=https://noralustig.tulane.edu|title=Nora Lustig CV|website=Nora Lustig|access-date=19 May 2018}}</ref>
Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/967228/|title=Nora Lustig|publisher=|access-date=19 May 2018}}</ref> She received her doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
==Career and awards== Lustig was the lead author of the ''World Development Report 2000/1 “Attacking Poverty”'' (World Bank).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,contentMDK:20195989~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336992,00.html |title=Poverty - WDR 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty (Full Text) |access-date=2009-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612070349/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,contentMDK:20195989~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336992,00.html |archive-date=2011-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Analyzing the dynamics of the Mexican economy has been the other main focus of her research. Her study ''Mexico, the Remaking of an Economy'' (Brookings Institution, 1992 and 1998)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/1998/mexcorev.aspx|title=Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.|website=Brookings|access-date=19 May 2018}}</ref> was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
As co-founder and president of LACEA<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lacea.org/lustig.htm |title=LACEA: Past President |access-date=2009-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213175337/http://lacea.org/lustig.htm |archive-date=2006-02-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association), she played a pivotal role<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lacea.org/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3|title=LACEA -Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association or Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe|website=www.lacea.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref> in the creation and consolidation of the leading association of economists focused on Latin America, the launching of LACEA's journal Economia and the organization of LACEA's Network on Inequality and Poverty.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Finance and development. Volume 42, no. 4, Latin America, a time of transition.|date=2005|publisher=International Monetary Fund|isbn=978-1463983512|oclc=796092259}}</ref> She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedialogue.org/experts/nora-lustig/|title=Inter-American Dialogue - Nora Lustig|website=www.thedialogue.org|access-date=19 May 2018}}</ref> the Earth Institute<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2003/story04-17-03.html|title=News Archive - The Earth Institute - Columbia University|website=www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref> and the Institute of Development Studies.<ref name="noralustig.tulane.edu"/>
From 2001 to 2005, she served as rector of the University of the Americas (UDLAP) in Puebla, Mexico. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow & a Project Director for the Commitment to Equity at the Inter-American Dialogue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedialogue.org/experts/nora-lustig/|title=Inter-American Dialogue {{!}} Nora Lustig|website=www.thedialogue.org|access-date=2017-04-12}}</ref>
In 2016 Lustig received the Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss Prize for Excellence in Research.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.tulane.edu/news/nora-lustig-receives-schloss-prize-economics|title=Nora Lustig receives Schloss Prize for Economics |work= Tulane News|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
=== Books === * {{cite book | editor-last = Lustig | editor-first = Nora | title = Mexico the remaking of an economy | publisher = Brookings Institution Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1998 | orig-year = 1992 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780585259178 }} * {{cite book | editor-last = Lustig | editor-first = Nora | title = Coping with austerity: poverty and inequality in Latin America | publisher = Brookings Institution Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780815753179 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/copingwithauster0000unse }} * {{cite book | editor-last1 = Lustig | editor-first1 = Nora | editor-last2 = Edwards | editor-first2 = Sebastian | title = Labor markets in Latin America combining social protection with market flexibility | publisher = Brookings Institution Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780585341217 }} * {{cite book | editor-last = Lustig | editor-first = Nora | title = Shielding the poor: social protection in the developing world | publisher = Brookings Institution Press and the Inter-American Development Bank | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780815753216 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Bourguignon | first2 = François | last3 = Ferreira | first3 = Francisco | author-link2 = François Bourguignon | title = The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America | publisher = World Bank Oxford University Press | location = Washington, DC New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780821358610 }} * {{cite book | editor-last1 = Lustig | editor-first1 = Nora | editor-last2 = López-Calva | editor-first2 = Luis F. | title = Declining inequality in Latin America: a decade of progress? | publisher = Brookings Institution Press and UNDP | location = Washington D.C. | date = June 2010 | isbn = 9780815704102 }} [http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/press/books/2010/declininginequalityinlatinamerica/declininginequalityinlatinamerica_toc.pdf Table of contents.] [http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/press/books/2010/declininginequalityinlatinamerica/declininginequalityinlatinamerica_chapter.pdf Sample chapter.] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wpdkq Available online.]
=== Tulane economics working paper series === Papers for Tulane economics working paper series, Tulane University. * {{cite book | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Coping with rising food prices: policy dilemmas in the developing world | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul0907.pdf | id = wp0907 | date = May 2009 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Gasparini | first2 = Leonardo | title = The rise and fall of income inequality in Latin America | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1110.pdf | id = wp1110 | date = February 2011 }} * {{cite book | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = The knowledge bank and poverty reduction | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1111.pdf | id = wp1111 | date = February 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Ros | first2 = Jamie | title = Latin America's economic challenges: lessons for emerging economies | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1112.pdf | id = wp1112 | date = February 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = McLeod | first2 = Darryl | title = Inequality and poverty under Latin America's new left regimes | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1117.pdf | id = wp1117 | date = March 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = López-Calva | first2 = Luis F. | last3 = Ortiz-Juarez | first3 = Eduardo | title = The decline in inequality in Latin America: how much, since when and why | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1118.pdf | id = wp1118 | date = April 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Birdsall | first2 = Nancy | last3 = McLeod | first3 = Darryl | title = Declining inequality in Latin America: some economics, some politics | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1120.pdf | id = wp1120 | date = May 2011 }} * {{cite book | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Scholars who became practitioners: the influence of research on the design, evaluation and political survival of Mexico's anti-poverty program Progresa/Oportunidades | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1123.pdf | id = wp1123 | date = June 2011 }} * {{cite book | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: what do we gain and what do we | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1121.pdf | id = wp1121 | date = June 2011 }} * {{cite book | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): a diagnostic framework to assess governments' fiscal policies handbook | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1122.pdf | id = wp1122 | date = July 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Pessino | first2 = Carola | last3 = Molina | first3 = George Gray | last4 = Jimenez | first4 = Wilson | last5 = Paz | first5 = Veronica | last6 = Yanez | first6 = Ernesto | last7 = Pereira | first7 = Claudiney | last8 = Higgins | first8 = Sean | title = Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: challenging the conventional wisdom | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1124.pdf | id = wp1124 | date = October 2011 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Lustig | first1 = Nora | last2 = Campos | first2 = Raymundo | last3 = Esquivel | first3 = Gerado | title = The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010 | url = http://econ.tulane.edu/RePEc/pdf/tul1201.pdf | id = wp1201 | date = January 2012 }}
=== Other articles and papers === * {{Cite journal | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Crises and the poor: socially responsible macroeconomics | journal = Economía, the Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–45 | doi = 10.1353/eco.2000.0009 | ssrn = 214994 | date = Fall 2000 | doi-access = free }} [http://idbdocs.iadb.org/WSDocs/getDocument.aspx?DOCNUM=38689931 Pdf.] * {{Cite journal | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Life is not easy: Mexico's quest for stability and growth | journal = The Journal of Economic Perspectives | volume = 15 | issue = 1 | pages = 85–106 | doi = 10.1257/jep.15.1.85 | jstor = 2696542 | date = Winter 2001 | doi-access = free }} [http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/documents/lifesnoteasy.pdf Pdf.] * {{Cite journal | last = Lustig | first = Nora | title = Thought for food: the challenges of coping with soaring food prices | id = wp155 | publisher = Center for Global Development | location = Washington D.C. | date = November 2008 | url = http://www.cgdev.org/publication/thought-food-challenges-coping-soaring-food-prices-working-paper-155 }} [http://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/967250_file_LUSTIG_THOUGHT_FOR_FOOD_FINAL.pdf Pdf.]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://noralustig.tulane.edu/ Official website] * [https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/economics/people/faculty/nora-lustig Nora Lustig Tulane Profile]
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