Time: 2018/10/1 9:53:52
Abstract: Giovanni Andrea Cornia is a development economist. He is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Management (formerly Faculty of Economics), at the University of Florence. He has previously been the director of the Regional Institute of Economic Planning of Tuscany (Istituto Regionale Programmazione Economica della Toscana, IRPET), the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), in Helsinki, and the Economic and Policy Research Program, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, in Florence. He was formerly also Chief Economist, UNICEF, New York. My research has focused primarily on development, macroeconomic, distributive, poverty and human wellbeing issues in developing countries and transitional economies. I edited and written 18 books, authored 30 chapters in books edited by other scholars, and published 100 articles in refereed journals and other serials such as WP series. His work has published in individual countries, regions and globally, including China.