Nora Lustig

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Nora Lustig
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Born (1951-01-13) January 13, 1951 (age 73)
Academic career
Field Development economics, inequality and poverty, Latin American economics
Institution Tulane University
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website noralustig.tulane.edu

Nora Lustig (born January 13, 1951) 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. [1]

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Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico. [2] 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). [3] 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) [4] was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.

As co-founder and president of LACEA [5] (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association), she played a pivotal role [6] 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. [7] She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue, [8] the Earth Institute [9] and the Institute of Development Studies. [1]

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. [10]

In 2016 Lustig received the Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss Prize for Excellence in Research. [11]

Selected publications

Books

Tulane economics working paper series

Papers for Tulane economics working paper series, Tulane University.

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