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Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue. Before joining Tulane, Nora Lustig was Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University, director of the Poverty Group at UNDP, president and professor of economics at the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Senior Advisor on Poverty at the Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico. Lustig’s fields of expertise are Development Economics and Poverty and Income Distribution with a focus on Latin America. A sample of her publications includes: Thought for Food: the Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices; The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics; Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World; Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy (received Choice's Outstanding Academic Book award). Nora Lustig was co-director of the World Development Report 2000/1, Attacking Poverty and founding member and president of LACEA (Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association). Lustig has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1987 and is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, the Board of Directors of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and of the Advisory Boards of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Global Development.Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lustig has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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