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PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Nora Lustig 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.

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World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty (2001) (2426)
Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? (2010) (463)
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2012) (453)
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (2012) (446)
The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America (2004) (277)
Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy (1992) (263)
The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America (2011) (232)
Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics (2000) (197)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: Introduction to the Special Issue (2014) (182)
Why is Inequality Back on the Agenda (1999) (174)
Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America (2013) (140)
An Evaluation of World Bank Research, 1998 - 2005 (2006) (133)
Investing in Health for Economic Development (2006) (116)
Minimum Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries: Some Empirical Evidence (1996) (112)
Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies, and Taxes - Handbook (2013) (111)
Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay (2012) (110)
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2013) (106)
Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala (2015) (101)
Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics (2011) (94)
Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (1995) (93)
Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth (2001) (92)
Labor markets in Latin America : combining social protection with market flexibility (1997) (92)
Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: The Increasing Role of Noncontributory Pensions (2012) (90)
Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor? (2015) (86)
Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World (2001) (80)
Appraising cross-national income inequality databases: An introduction (2015) (79)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results (2012) (78)
Do we know how much poverty there is? (2000) (77)
The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989–2010 (2012) (76)
MACROECONOMICS AND HEALTH: (2003) (76)
Declining Inequality in Latin America (2012) (75)
Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America (1998) (74)
Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (2018) (73)
Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States (2014) (73)
The Decline in Inequality in Latin America: How Much, Since When and Why (2011) (69)
Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries (2017) (63)
North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact (1992) (62)
Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa (2015) (59)
Rising Inequality in Mexico: Household Characteristics and Regional Effects (2003) (58)
Social Protection for Food Security (2012) (57)
DISTRIBUTIVE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW OF EVIDENCE FROM FOUR COUNTRIES (2002) (56)
Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth: A Two-Way Causality (2002) (55)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview (2013) (54)
Social Protection for Equity and Growth (2000) (53)
Understanding the Dynamics of Labor Income Inequality in Latin America (2016) (53)
Crises and the Poor : Socially Responsible (2000) (50)
Economic crisis, adjustment and living standards in Mexico, 1982-85 (1990) (50)
Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics and the 'Chiapas Effect' (1999) (48)
Can Education Explain Changes in Income Inequality in Mexico (2001) (48)
Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (2011) (47)
Declining Wages for College-Educated Workers in Mexico: Are Younger or Older Cohorts Hurt the Most? (2016) (45)
Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach (2012) (42)
Inequality and Poverty Under Latin America’s New Left Regimes (2011) (40)
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World (2009) (39)
Global Energy Assessment (GEA): Energy, Poverty, and Development (2012) (39)
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico (2020) (38)
Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: what do we gain and what do we lose? An introduction to JOEI Forum on multidimensional poverty (2011) (37)
The Redistributive Impactive of Government Spending on Education and Health Evidence from Thirteen Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project (2015) (37)
The Mexican Peso Crisis: The Foreseeable and the Surprise (1995) (36)
Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence (2013) (36)
The “Missing Rich” in Household Surveys: Causes and Correction Approaches (2019) (33)
A Fiscal Incidence Analysis for Ethiopia (2017) (31)
The recent decline of inequality in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru (2009) (31)
Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices (2008) (30)
The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers (2017) (29)
The rise and fall of income inequality in (2011) (28)
Terms of Trade and Class Conflict in a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Mexico (1986) (26)
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America (2021) (25)
Social Spending, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in Uruguay (2014) (23)
Fiscal policy, inequality, and poverty in Iran: assessing the impact and effectiveness of taxes and transfers (2019) (23)
Commitment to Equity: Diagnostic Questionnaire (2013) (23)
Analytic Foundations: Measuring the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers (2017) (23)
THE REDISTRIBUTIVE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING (2015) (22)
Trade and Financial Liberalization with Volatile Capital Inflows: Macroeconomic Consequences and Social Impacts in Mexico during the 1990s (2000) (22)
Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security (2000) (21)
COVID-19 and social protection of poor and vulnerable groups in Latin America: A conceptual framework (2020) (21)
Measuring the distribution of household income, consumption and wealth (2018) (20)
Commitment to Equity Handbook. A Guide to Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (2016) (20)
The distributional impact of taxes and transfers : evidence from eight low- and middle-income countries (2017) (19)
Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution, and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Tunisia (2018) (18)
Investing in Health for Economic Development : The Case of Mexico (2007) (18)
Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We Lose? (2011) (18)
Measuring the Distributional Impact of Taxation and Public Spending: The Practice of Fiscal Incidence Analysis (2019) (18)
Underconsumption in Latin American Economic Thought: Some Considerations (1980) (17)
Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolved (2017) (17)
A Long-Term Perspective on Inequality and Human Development in Latin America (2015) (17)
The Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Inequality and Poverty in Uganda (2016) (17)
World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty - overview (2000) (17)
Fiscal Policy and Ethno-Racial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Uruguay (2015) (17)
The Incidence of Taxes and Spending in Sri Lanka (2017) (15)
Taxes, Transfers, and Income Redistribution in Latin America (2012) (15)
Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala (2015) (15)
Short and Long-Run Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America (2020) (15)
Coming together? : Mexico-United States relations (1997) (14)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in El Salvador (2017) (14)
Fiscal Incidence and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Tunisia (2016) (13)
The rich underreport their income: Assessing bias in inequality estimates and correction methods using linked survey and tax data (2018) (13)
Scholars Who Became Practitioners: The Influence of Research on the Design, Evaluation, and Political Survival of Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Progresa/Oportunidades (2011) (12)
Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): A Diagnostic Framework to Assess Governments’ Fiscal Policies Handbook (2011) (12)
Who Benefits from Fiscal Redistribution in the Russian Federation (2017) (12)
Prospects for growth and the environment in Mexico in the 1990s (1996) (12)
Overview: Fiscal Policy and Redistribution (2017) (10)
Mexico in Crisis, the U.S. to the Rescue: The Financial Assistance Packages of 1982 and 1995 (1996) (10)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results (2012) (10)
The Knowledge Bank and poverty reduction (2011) (10)
The 1982 Debt Crisis, Chiapas, NAFTA, and Mexico’s Poor (1995) (10)
NAFTA: Setting the Record Straight (1997) (9)
Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Poor (2016) (9)
Female Employment, Occupational Status, and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Family in Mexico (1979) (9)
Poverty in Mexico (1995) (9)
The United States to the rescue: financial assistance to Mexico in 1982 and 1995 (1997) (9)
POVERTY IN MEXICO: THE EFFECTS OF ADJUSTING SURVEY DATA FOR UNDER-REPORTING* (1995) (8)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Introduction to Special Issue (2014) (8)
NAFTA: Doing Well by Doing Good (1994) (7)
Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World (2016) (7)
Fiscal Redistribution In Middle Income Countries:: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa (2015) (7)
Characteristics of mexican economic growth: Empirical testing of some latin american structuralist hypotheses (1982) (7)
Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth - A Survey (2021) (7)
Leaving No One Behind: Can Tax-Funded Transfer Programs Provide Income Floors in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2019) (7)
Mexico: Trade and Financial Liberalization With Volatile Capital Inflows: Macroeconomic Consequences and Social Impacts During the 1990s (2001) (7)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Poverty Lines (2016) (7)
Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: The role of social spending and taxation in achieving development goals (2014) (6)
Decomposing Changes in Male Wage Distribution in Brazil (2016) (6)
5. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization, and the Poor (2018) (6)
Evaluation and Poverty Reduction (2018) (6)
Latin America's Inequality Success Story (2013) (6)
Mexico: The Slippery Road to Stability (1996) (6)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay (Spanish) (2016) (6)
COMMITMENT TO EQUITY ASSESSMENT: HANDBOOK (2013) (5)
The Curse of Volatile Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World 1 (2009) (5)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview (2013) (5)
Comparative Effects of Universal Basic Income: Emerging Issues and Estimates (2019) (5)
The Impact of the Tax System and Social Spending in Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America (2016) (5)
How Brazil and Mexico Diverged on Social Protection in the Pandemic (2021) (5)
Inequality, Mobility and Middle Classes in Latin America (2015) (5)
Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala (2017) (4)
The Role of Fiscal Policy in Fighting Poverty and Reducing Inequality in Iran: An Application of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Framework (2016) (4)
Inequality Convergence: How Sensitive are Results to the Choice of Data? (2016) (4)
Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases (2015) (4)
POVERTY IN MEXICO : AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS (1993) (4)
Social Protection for Equity and Growth ; Protección social para la equidad y el crecimiento (2000) (4)
The Impact of COVID-19 Economic Shock on Inequality and Poverty in Mexico (2020) (4)
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Income Distribution and Poverty in Latin America. An Application of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Methodology (2017) (4)
NAFTA: A Mexican Perspective (2012) (4)
Minimum Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries: Some Evidence (1996) (4)
Gendered Fiscal Incidence Analysis. A Review of the Literature (2013) (3)
Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Iran: Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers the Poor in the Developing World (2016) (3)
Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014 (2018) (3)
The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China (2020) (3)
The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Mexican Perspective (1992) (3)
On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity (2017) (3)
The COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to G20 leaders (2020) (3)
From Structuralism to Neostructuralism: The Search for a Heterodox Paradigm (2019) (3)
En Route to Modern Growth: Latin America in the 1990s: Essays in Honor of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro (1994) (3)
FISCAL POLICY, INCOME REDISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN ARGENTINA (2021) (2)
Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor (2013) (2)
Global Energy Assessment (GEA): Energy and Economy (2012) (2)
A New Mexico? Toward a U.S.-Mexican Partnership (1995) (2)
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN MEXICO (2)
The Outbreak of Pesophobia (1995) (2)
Latin America's Economic Challenges: Lessons for Emerging Economies (2011) (2)
Splitting the Bill: Taxing and Spending to Close Ethnic and Racial Gaps in Latin America (2018) (2)
Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality: An Assessment of Correction Methods using Linked Survey and Tax Data (2)
Economic Crises and Social Protection for the Poor: The Latin American Experience (2018) (1)
Is Latin America Becoming Less Unequal (2010) (1)
A missing target in the SDGs: tax systems should not reduce the income of the poor (2015) (1)
Crises, exchange rate management, and inequality: lessons from Latin America (2015) (1)
Coping with Rising Food Prices (2009) (1)
Rising Food Prices and Children’s Welfare (2012) (1)
2. Fiscal Policy, Income Re distribution, and Poverty Reduction in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: An Overview (2018) (1)
A methodological note on the measurement of labor income in Mexico (2014) (1)
How Accurate is the Kakwani Index in Predicting Whether a Tax or a Transfer is Equalizing? (2022) (1)
Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered (2017) (1)
Inequality in Mexico – on the rise again by (2019) (1)
Poverty, Inequality and the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean (2011) (1)
Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality: A Comparison of Correction Methods using Simulations and Linked Survey and Tax Data (2022) (1)
The Impact Of The Economic Crisis On Living Standards In Mexico : 1982- 1985 (1989) (1)
the quest for optimal tax and expenditure policies for shared prosperity (2013) (1)
Inflation and the Erosion of the Poverty Reduction Impact of Iran's Universal Cash Transfer (2018) (1)
Child Friendly Budgets for 2010 and Beyond : Toward Global Economic Recovery with a (2010) (1)
Fighting Malnutrition in Mexico: The Fiscal Cost of Alternative Policy Options (1982) (0)
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America (2022) (0)
Was falling inequality in all Latin American coun data-driven illusion? patterns in Uruguay 2009 (2020) (0)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Poor-G20 Insights (2018) (0)
Commitment to equity: A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policy (2014) (0)
Distribution of Income and Patterns of Consumption in Mexico: Empirical Testing of some Latin American Structuralist Hypotheses (1983) (0)
Book Review of Poverty, Inequality and Policy in Latin America (2013) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Poverty Lines (2016) (0)
The Impact of the Tax System and Social Expenditure on the Distribution of Income and Poverty in Latin America (Spanish) - Working Paper 450 (2017) (0)
supplementary volume with selected background papers (2013) (0)
Comment on “Economic Regress: Concepts and Features,” by Sen (1993) (0)
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS AND EXPANDED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE ON INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND MOBILITY IN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, COLOMBIA AND (2020) (0)
Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: The role of social spending and taxation in achieving development goals (2014) (0)
Scholars Who Became Practitioners - Working Paper 263 (2011) (0)
Arianna Legovini and Nora Lustig June 7 , 1999 (1999) (0)
Book Review of Poverty, Inequality and Policy in Latin America (2013) (0)
The Pink Tide and Income Inequality in Latin America (2023) (0)
14. SAM's Impact on Income Distribution (2019) (0)
Microsoft Word-CEQWPNo4 FiscalMobPoor Jan 2013.docx (2014) (0)
The international politics of economic globalization and emerging market economies: (panel 5) (2015) (0)
WIDER ) Research in Progress 21 Investment in Education and Income Inequality (2008) (0)
Remission of malingered amnesia following a natural disaster. (1967) (0)
The Pink Tide and Inequality in Latin America (2021) (0)
Universal Basic Income, Taxes, and the Poor (2022) (0)
Microsoft Word-Higgins&Lustig April 1 2013.docx (2013) (0)
Are Income Floors Viable In Sub-Saharan Africa? (2019) (0)
Santiago Levy.Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality, and Economic Growth in Mexico. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2008. Pp. xv+357. $27.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
Nowcasting the Impact of Covid-19 on Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Earnings Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2022) (0)
Facts, Puzzles and Surprises in Inequality Research (2014) (0)
Foreword One of the central themes that the Poverty and Inequality (1999) (0)
Appraising cross-national income inequality databases: An introduction (2015) (0)
Preliminary Draft. Comments Welcome (1995) (0)
Michael Bleaney. Underconsumption theories : a history and critical analysis. Nueva York : International Publishers, 1976 (1978) (0)
Multi-dimensional Indices of Achievement and Poverty: Comments (2011) (0)
Global Poverty Lines: An Introduction (2016) (0)
CEQ POLICY ASSESSMENT: GUATEMALA (2014) (0)
COVID-19 AND SOCIAL PROTECTION OF POOR AND VULNERABLE GROUPS IN LATIN AMERICA (2020) (0)
Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America (2020) (0)
CEPA Center for Economic Policy Analysis Trade and Financial Liberalization with Volatile Capital Inflows : Macroeconomic Consequences and Social Impacts in Mexico during the 1990 s (2000) (0)
Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa (2021) (0)
Mexico: Why a Few are Rich and the People Poor - by Ruiz, Ramon, E. (2012) (0)
Panel Discussion: Final Roundtable (2018) (0)
Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Uganda (2016) (0)
Are Budget Neutral Income Floors Fiscally Viable in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2023) (0)
How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes (2013) (0)
World development report 2017 : Domestic resource mobilization and the poor (2016) (0)
Mexico (2019) (0)
Panel V: Overcoming Poverty (1998) (0)
Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay (2016) (0)
Why corporate purpose matters A plea for responsible profit-making (2020) (0)
Public Expenditure (2021) (0)
North American Free Trade (1992) (0)

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