11/10/2007 9:45:23 am
Influential Poverty Analysis. In the latest edition of Economic Affairs, I have a major article about the origins of poverty in wealthy countries and ways to reduce it. My point is that vast interventions by the state in society - allagedly for social justice - often creates poverty and that economic liberalization reduces it.

I received a very kind e-mail from the Zambia Institute For Public Policy Analysis. Although my article focuses on poverty in wealthy countries, they apparently found it true for Zambia as well. So they will use the facts and arguments there - which I very much welcome.