Giovanni Andrea Cornia (born 9 April 1947),
is a development economist. He is professor of economics, department of economics and management (formerly faculty of economics), at the
University of Florence
The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled.
History
The first universi ...
. He has previously been the director of the Regional Institute of Economic Planning of Tuscany (
Istituto Regionale Programmazione Economica della Toscana,
IRPET), the
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UNU-WIDER
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is part of the United Nations University (UNU). UNU-WIDER, the first research and training centre to be established by the UNU, is an international academ ...
), in Helsinki, and the Economic and Policy Research Program,
UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, in Florence. He was formerly also chief economist, UNICEF, New York. His main areas of professional interest are income and asset inequality, poverty, growth, child well-being, human development and mortality crises, transition economics, and institutional economics. He is author of over a dozen books and dozens of articles, reports and working papers on practical development economics issues in individual countries, regions and globally.
Selected bibliography
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External links
Personal profile: Giovanni Andrea CorniaUniversità degli Studi di Firenze
Personal profile: Giovanni Andrea CorniaUnited Nations University – UNU-WIDER
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1947 births
Development economists
Italian economists
Living people
Macroeconomists