Subject(s): Poverty -- Political Economy -- Design of comparative study -- Analytical economic history : Logic of comparative studies, forensic story telling -- Political economy : New political economy, economics of imperfect information, implications, synopsis of synthesis volume -- Poverty, equity and growth : Wealth and welfare, real income , equity or equality, poverty, three types of poverty- structural mass poverty, destitution, conjunctural poverty, alleviating destitution and conjunctural poverty, two ethical traditions and poverty alleviation - classical liberalism, distributivist egalitarianism, growth, inequality and poverty alleviation -- Aggregate growth outcomes : Proximate causes of growth, neo- classical growth models, endogenous growth theories, Scott's growth framework, entrepreneurship, does openness matter- theory, cross country regressions, case studies of Asian miracle economies, three factor open economy growth -- Country profiles : Method of pairing countries, five small open economies, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, Thailand and Ghana, Brazil and Mexico, Uruguay and Costa Rica, Colombia and Peru, Egypt and Turkey, Nigeria and Indonesia, Malawi and Madagascar -- Role of institutions and organization : Introducing greater institutional content, peasant export economy and plantation and mining economy, effects of import substitution policies, transition to manufactured exports, reinterpreting country stories- small economies, peasant export economies, plantation and mining economies, mixed cases -- Instability and growth : Dimensions of growth instability, consequences for growth performance of macroeconomic instability- exogenous shocks, endogenous policy induced shocks, interaction of exogenous and endogenous shocks , causes of growth collapses- trade orientation, inflation and fiscal deficits, exogenous shocks and misalignment of real exchange rates, sources of fiscal imbalance -- Polity and economic performance : Models of state - Autonomous state, model of autonomous state, relevance of model, model of factional state, dynamic interactions between policies and polity, classification of polities and relationship to overall growth performance - classification by region and resource endowments, resources endowment, polity and economic performance- land/labour/labor- abundant countries, countries with intermediate resource endowments, political economy of reform- turning points, crises, path dependent policies and political economic equilibria -- Ideas, ideology and economic policy : Two rival views of state and society, economic nationalism, nation building and rise and fall of mercantilism, rise and fall of economic liberalism -- Perspective on economic policy : Relation between our approach and neoclassical approach to economic policy, capital fundamentalism and industrial fundamentalism, redressing the anti agricultural bias and agricultural fundamentalism, redistributive policies and land reform -- Income transfers and poverty redressal : Mass poverty and growth- evidence from country studies, direct method of alleviating structural poverty- cross sectional evidence, evidence from country studies, conjunctural poverty, destitution and transfers, safety nets and welfare states, labour/labor market risks, imperfect information, insurance and welfare state, private virus public transfers in social safety nets - private transfers, public transfers, political economy of public income transfers, unintended consequences of welfare states, classical liberal principles and labour market insurance, guide lines for public action on social safety nets -- On fostering poverty- redressing growth : Poverty and equity, growth performance, stylized patterns- endowments, policy and economic policy, nationalism, dirigisme and liberalization, towards a liberal economic framework for policy