New Markets, New Opportunities? ― Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World

Focuses on social mobility and opportunity as an essential part of the debate on income inequality in both developed and developing economies. Explores conceptual issues, measurement challenges, empirical evidence of mobility patterns, and public perceptions and politics. Material draws on discussions at a June 1998 workshop. Birdsall is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank. Graham in a senior fellow in economic studies and co-director of the Center of Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall was senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank. Carol Graham is a senior fellow in both Foreign Policy Studies and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, where she holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy. Her most recent book is Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2010).