François Bourguignon Explained

François Bourguignon
Office:	Chief Economist of the World Bank
President:	James Wolfensohn Paul Wolfowitz
Term Start:	2003
Term End:	2007
Predecessor:	Nicholas Stern
Successor:	Justin Yifu Lin
Birth Date:	1945 5, df=y
Birth Place:	Paris, France
Education:	ENSAE ParisTech (BS) Pierre and Marie Curie University (DEA) University of Western Ontario (PhD)
Module:	Child: yes Institution: Paris School of Economics Doctoral Students: Bernard Salanié Awards: Dan David Prize (2016) Repec Prefix: f Repec Id: pbo225

François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics,^[1] and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.^[2] in 2016 Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize.He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies (Brazil, China, India…), international trade and trade policy, education, wealth, income, redistribution, and tax policy.

Education

Trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris (French National School of Statistics and Economics), François Bourguignon has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• Book: Bourguignon . François . Atkinson . Anthony B. . Tony Atkinson . Handbook of income distribution . Elvesier . Amsterdam New York . 2000 . 9780444816313 .
• Book: Bourguignon . François . Pereira da Silva . Luiz A. . The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools . World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York . Washington, DC . 2003 . 9780821354919 .
• Book: Bourguignon . François . Lustig . Nora . Ferreira . Francisco . Nora Lustig . The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America . World Bank Oxford University Press . Washington, DC New York . 2005 . 9780821358610 .
• Book: Bourguignon . François . Bussolo . Maurizio . Pereira da Silva . Luiz A. . The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools . Palgrave Macmillan World Bank . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Washington, DC . 2008 . 9780821357781 .
• Book: Bourguignon, François . Scott-Railton. Thomas . The Globalization of Inequality . Princeton University Press. 2015 . 9780691160528 .

Chapters in books

• • Pdf version.

Journal articles

• Book: Bourguignon . François . Pereira da Silva . Luiz A. . Luiz A. . Francois . Pereira Da Silva . Bourguignon . The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools . World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York . 2003 . 10.1596/0-8213-5491-4 . 10986/15090 . 978-0-8213-5491-9 .
• Book: Bourguignon . François . Lustig . Nora . Ferreira . Francisco . Nora . Francois . Francisco H. G. . Lustig . Bourguignon . Ferreira . The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America . World Bank Oxford University Press . 2005 . 10.1596/0-8213-5861-8 . 10986/14844 . 978-0-8213-5861-0 .
• Bourguignon . François . Sundberg . Mark . Aid effectiveness: opening the black box . . 97 . 2 . 316–321 . American Economic Association via JSTOR . May 2007 . 30034468 . 10.1257/aer.97.2.316 .
• Bourguignon . François . Ferrera . Francisco H.G. . Walton . Michael . Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: a research agenda . The Journal of Economic Inequality . 5 . 2 . 235–256 . Springer . 10.1007/s10888-006-9042-8 . August 2007 . 54090211 .
• Bourguignon . François . Bussolo . Maurizio . Pereira da Silva . Luiz A. . Luiz A. . Francois . Maurizio . Pereira Da Silva . Bourguignon . Bussolo . The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools . . Palgrave Macmillan World Bank . 2008 . 10.1596/978-0-8213-5778-1 . 10986/6586 . 978-0-8213-5778-1 .

See also

• Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle

Notes and References

1. Web site: François Bourguignon biography. World Bank Website. 16 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110114025806/http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2007/0,,contentMDK:21523993~menuPK:1489857~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:1489834~isCURL:Y,00.html. 14 January 2011. dead.
2. Web site: François Bourguignon personal page. Paris School of Economics Website. 16 January 2011. 1 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160901140754/http://www.pse.ens.fr/bourguignon/index.html. dead.
3. Web site: François Bourguignon CV . Paris School of Economics Website .