Lyn Squire
Lyn Squire is an American economist who was born in South Wales. He held several positions within the World Bank's hierarchy over a 25-year career. While there, he co-authored, with Herman G. Van Der Tak, the 1975 work Economic analysis of projects. He was one of the lead authors of the World Development Report 1990: Poverty where the international $1 a day poverty line was proposed.[1][2]
Academic Service
[edit]- The Editor of the Middle East Development Journal
- Founding president and ex-director of the Global Development Network
Selected publications
[edit]- Squire, L. (1993). Fighting poverty. American Economic Review, 83(2), 377–382.
- Lundberg, M., & Squire, L. (2003). The simultaneous evolution of growth and inequality. Economic Journal, 113(487), 326–344.
- Squire, L., & Van der Tak, H. G. (1975). Economic analysis of projects. World Bank Publications.[3]
- Barnum, H. N., & Squire, L. (1979). An econometric application of the theory of the farm-household. Journal of Development Economics, 6(1), 79–102.[4]
- Deininger, K., & Squire, L. (1996). A new data set measuring income inequality. World Bank Economic Review, 10(3), 565–591.
- Deininger, K., & Squire, L. (1998). New ways of looking at old issues: inequality and growth. Journal of development economics, 57(2), 259–287.
- Bruno, M., Ravallion, M., & Squire, L. (1996). Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues (Vol. 1563). World Bank Publications.
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. & Lyn Squire (1999) International Development: Is It Possible? Foreign Policy, 110, 138–151.
- Kanbur, R., & Squire, L. (1999). The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions. WP 99-24 Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics. Cornell University,
- Milanovic, B., & Squire, L. (2005). Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 3571, World Bank, Washington, DC.
References
[edit]- ^ "History". oralhistory.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ "Lyn Squire | International Growth Centre". theigc.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ For reviews and analysis of the work see: Jenkins, G. P. (1997). Project Analysis and the World Bank. American Economic Review, 87(2), 38–42.; Ordish, G. (1976). Economic Analysis of Projects. Outlook on Agriculture, 9(1), 36-36 and Ward WA. (2019) Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory versus Practice at the World Bank 1960 to 2015. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis;10(1):124-144. Also Robert Brent has written a whole book (Brent, R. J. (1990 and 1998 2nd edition). Cost-benefit analysis for developing countries. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.) outlining, evaluating and expanding the Squire and Van de Tak approach to project appraisal.
- ^ Summarised in pages 128-134 of Frank Ellis (1988) Peasant Economics: Farm Household and agrarian development, Cambridge