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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nora_Lustig > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nora_Lustig.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Lustig > Source revision: 1353351812 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Argentine economist}} {{Infobox economist | school_tradition = | image = Nora Lustig 2008.jpg | caption = | name = Nora Lustig | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|1|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires), [Argentina](/source/Argentina) | death_date = | death_place = | institution = [Tulane University](/source/Tulane_University) | alma_mater = [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) | field = [Development economics](/source/Development_economics), [inequality](/source/economic_inequality) and [poverty](/source/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](/source/Tulane_University), and a non-resident Fellow at the [Center for Global Development](/source/Center_for_Global_Development) and the [Inter-American Dialogue](/source/Inter-American_Dialogue).{{cite web|url=https://noralustig.tulane.edu|title=Nora Lustig CV|website=Nora Lustig|access-date=19 May 2018}} Nora Lustig was born and raised in [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires), Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico.{{cite web|url=http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/967228/|title=Nora Lustig|publisher=|access-date=19 May 2018}} She received her doctorate in economics from the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley). ==Career and awards== Lustig was the lead author of the ''World Development Report 2000/1 “Attacking Poverty”'' (World Bank).{{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 }} 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){{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/1998/mexcorev.aspx|title=Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.|website=Brookings|access-date=19 May 2018}} was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. As co-founder and president of LACEA{{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 }} (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association), she played a pivotal role{{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}} 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.{{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}} She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue,{{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}} the Earth Institute{{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}} and the Institute of Development Studies. From 2001 to 2005, she served as rector of the University of the Americas ([UDLAP](/source/UDLAP)) in [Puebla](/source/Puebla%2C_Puebla), Mexico. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow & a Project Director for the Commitment to Equity at the [Inter-American Dialogue](/source/Inter-American_Dialogue).{{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}} In 2016 Lustig received the Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss Prize for Excellence in Research.{{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}} == Selected publications == === Books === * {{cite book | editor-last = Lustig | editor-first = Nora | title = Mexico the remaking of an economy | publisher = [Brookings Institution Press](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Brookings_Institution_Press) and the [Inter-American Development Bank](/source/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](/source/Brookings_Institution_Press) and [UNDP](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lustig, Nora}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American economists Category:21st-century American economists Category:20th-century American women 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