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Michael Lipton

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Lipton was an English development studies economist specializing in the study of rural poverty in developing countries, including issues relating to land reform and urban bias. He spent much of his career at the University of Sussex, but also contributed to the work of international institutions, such as the World Bank's 2000/2001 World Development Report on poverty.

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Michael Lipton's Published Works

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Poverty and policy (1993) (975)
Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development (1977) (818)
Migration from rural areas of poor countries: The impact on rural productivity and income distribution (1980) (719)
New seeds and poor people (1990) (557)
Why poor people stay poor (1976) (356)
Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs (2009) (261)
The family farm in a globalizing world: The role of crop science in alleviating poverty (2005) (209)
Farm Size (2009) (202)
The effects of irrigation on poverty: a framework for analysis (2003) (185)
Migration from rural areas : the evidence from village studies (1978) (170)
Migration from Rural Areas: The Evidence from Village Studies. (1978) (163)
Land reform as commenced business: The evidence against stopping (1993) (147)
Poverty, undernutrition, and hunger (1983) (141)
Chapter 65 Farm Size (2010) (130)
The impact of changes in human fertility on poverty (1999) (126)
The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries (2003) (120)
The new poverty agenda: an overview (1992) (119)
Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa: How big will the economic dividend be? (2011) (113)
Pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction: meaning, evidence, and policy implications (2002) (112)
Agricultural finance and rural credit in poor countries (1976) (110)
Urban bias revisited (1984) (109)
Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects via Economic Growth, Distribution,and Conversion (2001) (105)
Successes in anti-poverty (1998) (103)
The Impact of Technical Change in Agriculture on Human Fertility: District-level Evidence From India (1994) (101)
The poor and the poorest : some interim findings (1988) (99)
Urban bias: Of consequences, classes and causality (1993) (98)
Editorial: Poverty -- are there holes in the consensus? (1997) (96)
Limits of Price Policy for Agriculture: Which Way for the World Bank? (1987) (87)
Reviving global poverty reduction : what role for genetically modified plants ? (2000) (84)
Chapter 41 Poverty and policy (1995) (83)
Damaging fluctuations, risk and poverty: a review (1999) (81)
The place of agricultural research in the development of sub-Saharan Africa (1988) (71)
Land assets and rural poverty (1985) (68)
Premature deagriculturalisation? Land inequality and rural dependency in Limpopo province, South Africa* (2006) (65)
How third world rural households adapt to dietary energy stress: the evidence and the issues. (1994) (65)
Rural-urban dimensions of inequality change (2000) (65)
Impact of Structural Adjustment on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Review of the Literature (1997) (63)
Crop science, poverty and the family farm in a globalising world (2004) (61)
Family, Fungibility and Formality: Rural Advantages of Informal Non-farm Enterprise versus the Urban-formal State (1984) (54)
From Policy Aims and Small-farm Characteristics to Farm Science Needs (2010) (51)
Pro-poor Growth and Pro-growth Poverty Reduction : What Do they Mean ? What Does the Evidence Mean ? What Can Policymakers Do ? (45)
Creating rural livelihoods: Some lessons for South Africa from experience elsewhere☆ (1993) (45)
Inter-farm, inter-regional and farm-non-farm income distribution: The impact of the new cereal variaties (1978) (45)
Rural and urban income inequality and poverty: does convergence between sectors offset divergence within them? (2004) (44)
Labor and poverty (1983) (37)
PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF IRRIGATION ON POVERTY WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ASIA (2003) (37)
Does Aid Work in India?: A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance (1990) (37)
Responses to rural population growth: Malthus and the Moderns. (1989) (35)
Interdisciplinary studies in less developed countries (1970) (35)
Farm water and rural poverty reduction in developing Asia (2007) (34)
Food security, farmland access ethics, and land reform (2017) (33)
Seasonality and Ultrapoverty (1986) (31)
Poverty and "Damaging Fluctuations": How do they Relate? (2002) (31)
Economics and anthropology: Grounding models in relationships (1992) (31)
RESTRUCTURING SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (1994) (29)
Learning From Others: Increasing Agricultural Productivity for Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012) (28)
Cultivating change. Success stories from the WALA and IMPACT programs in southern Malawi. (1969) (27)
The impact of irrigation on poverty (2002) (25)
Land Reform in Developing Countries (2009) (24)
Rural Development and the Retention of the Rural Population in the Countryside of Developing Countries (1982) (24)
Agriculture, rural people, the state and the surplus in some Asian countries: Thoughts on some implications of three recent approaches in social science (1989) (24)
The Prisoners’ Dilemma and Coase’s Theorem: A Case for Democracy in Less Developed Countries? (1985) (24)
How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics (2020) (22)
Urban bias and food policy in poor countries. (1975) (22)
Assessing village labour situations in developing countries (1977) (22)
Reconnecting Agricultural Technology to Human Development (2002) (19)
Rural-Urban Dimensions of Inequality Change. Working Papers. (2000) (19)
The Demographic Dividend: Retrospect and Prospect (2012) (19)
Balanced and Unbalanced Growth in Underdeveloped Countries (1962) (18)
Africa’s National-accounts Mess1 (2013) (18)
Agricultural research and modern plant varieties in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Generalizations, realities and conclusions (1989) (17)
The place of agricultural research in the development of sub‐Saharan Africa (1985) (16)
The state‐market dilemma, civil society, and structural adjustment: Any cross‐commonwealth lessons? (1991) (15)
The crisis of Indian planning, economic policy in the 1960's. (1969) (14)
The crisis of Indian planning: economic planning in the 1960s (1969) (13)
The poor and the poorest (1988) (12)
Introduction: Aid?effectiveness, Prisoners' Dilemmas, and Country Allocations (1986) (12)
African food strategies and the EEC's role : an interim review (1984) (10)
Post‐harvest Technology and the Reduction of Hunger (2009) (10)
REDUCING INEQUALITY AND POVERTY DURING LIBERALISATION IN CHINA: RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCES AND POLICY OPTIONS (2007) (10)
The new economics of growth: A review (1977) (8)
Halving world poverty 1 (2004) (8)
Development studies: Findings, frontiers and fights (1987) (8)
Investments for Capacity Expansion: Size, Location and Time-Phasing . Edited by Alan S. Manne The M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1967. Pp. 239, $10.00. (1970) (8)
Education and Farm Efficiency: Comment (1985) (8)
The Rural-Urban dimension of inequality change (2004) (7)
The World Bank and poverty. (1982) (7)
Why the Poor Stay Poor (2012) (6)
A Note on Poverty and Sustainability1 (1991) (6)
Requiem for Adjustment Lending (1990) (5)
Improving the impact of aid for rural development (1987) (5)
The state, industrialization and class formations in India : Anumpan Sen, (London: Routledge, 1982), [UK pound]14.95 (1985) (5)
Stabilization and structural reform in India (1993) (5)
Improving agricultural aid impact on low-income countries (1987) (5)
LAND AND ASSET SIZE, STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION AND THE LINKS TO INCOME IN THREE DRYLANDS (2003) (5)
A problem in poverty measurement (1985) (5)
Successes in anti-poverty: national-level poverty performance (2001) (4)
Technological cures for social pathologies (1979) (4)
Conditions of Poverty Groups and Impact on Indian Economic Development and Cultural Change: The Role of Labour (1984) (4)
Migration from Rural Area, the Evidence from Village Studies. (1979) (4)
Minimum wages, exploitation and Botswana's unemployment crisis (1980) (4)
African Agricultural Development: The EEC's New Role (1983) (3)
POPULATION, LAND AND DECREASING RETURNS TO AGRICULTURAL LABOUR1 (2009) (3)
Growing Mountain, Shrinking Mouse? Indian Poverty and British Bilateral Aid (1996) (3)
Pakistan's Development: Social Goals and Private Incentives. By Gustav F. Papanek. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1967. Pp. xxii + 354, statistical appendix, $8.95. (1970) (3)
Escaping Poverty: The Poor’s Productive Resource Needs: A Keynote Address (2001) (3)
The Indian Economy (1979) (3)
Bottom Billion: Countries or People? (2008) (3)
The growing grass roots of Indian rural inequality (1975) (2)
What productive resources do the poor really need to escape poverty (2002) (2)
New Strategies and Successful Examples for Sustainable Development in the Third World (2)
Perverse responses by factor users to factor cost changes: Need policy advisors worry? (1979) (1)
Agricultural Change and Population Growth: District-Level Evidence From India (2006) (1)
Population change in the wake of agricultural improvement: lessons for Pakistan. (1992) (1)
Agricultural technology and health: understanding the links between agriculture and health (2006) (1)
The Great Escape. Angus Deaton (2016) (1)
Assessing Village Labour Situations in Developing Countries.@@@Village Society and Labour Use. (1978) (1)
Aid and Poverty in India (2010) (1)
On not being against socialism (1977) (1)
Handbook of development economics, vol. 1: Concepts and approaches; Structural transformation; Human resources and labour markets: Hollis Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988) pp. xxiv+848, $78.50 (1992) (1)
CASE FOR SMALL FARMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1980) (1)
U.N.C.T.A.D. Schmunctad (1972) (1)
Market-friendly public-sector management and poverty in developing countries (1998) (0)
Timothy Besley and Roberto Zagha, eds.Development Challenges in the 1990s: Leading Policymakers Speak from Experience. Washington, DC: World Bank; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+332. $35.00 (paper). (2007) (0)
Comments on Goonatilake : (some notes on the dependency of ‘dependency’) (2009) (0)
Land and the Constitution in India.@@@India: Planning for Industrialization.@@@The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Policy in the 1960s. (1972) (0)
An Escape from the Malthus Rectangle? Poverty, and Conversion Efficiency (Distinguishedl Lecture) (1994) (0)
ReconnectingAgricultural Technologyto HumanDevelopment (2002) (0)
The Malthus rectangle, poverty, and conversion efficiency : distinguished lecture (1994) (0)
THE D EMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND: R ETROSPECT AND P ROSPECT (2011) (0)
Editor's Introduction (2002) (0)
FORWARD FROM PEARSONISM1 (2009) (0)
Rural Credit, Farm Finance and Village Households (1980) (0)
Req u ie m for Ad iust men t Lending (1990) (0)
Urban Bias and Inequality (2019) (0)
Premature de-agriculturisation and its consequences : rural dependency among African households in Limpopo Province, South Africa (2007) (0)
The Impact of Agriculture on Third World Health: What Goals for Health Professionals? (1987) (0)
Copperplating One's Navel (2006) (0)
Tufts Institute to Award Annual Economics Prize to Michael Lipton and C. Peter Timmer for Work on Food and Agriculture (2012) (0)
India’s Aid Resources in Macroeconomic Context (2010) (0)
From Protective Health to National Recovery (2009) (0)
THE VILLAGE STUDIES PROGRAMME (2009) (0)
CONFRONTATION VERSUS CO‐OPERATION: Poor Countries' Dwindling External Options; “Bargaining”; and the Case for Multiple Bilateralism1 (2009) (0)
Helping the rural poor: the key to halving world poverty (2003) (0)

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Land Reform in Developing Countries