François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics,^[1] and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.^[2] In 2016, Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize.^[3] He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies, international trade, trade and tax policy, redistribution and education.^[4]

Bourguignon is trained as a statistician at ENSAE Paris and has a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.^[5]

• Bourguignon, François; Atkinson, Anthony B. (2000). Handbook of income distribution. Amsterdam New York: Elvesier. ISBN 9780444816313.
• Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools. Washington, DC: World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780821354919.
• Bourguignon, François; Lustig, Nora; Ferreira, Francisco (2005). The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America. Washington, DC; New York: World Bank Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780821358610.
• Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York; Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan World Bank. ISBN 9780821357781.
• Bourguignon, François (2015). The Globalization of Inequality. Translated by Scott-Railton, Thomas. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691160528.

• Bourguignon, François (2005), "The effect of economic growth on social structures", in Aghion, Philippe; Durlauf, Steven N. (eds.), Handbook of economic growth, vol. 1B, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1701–1748, ISBN 9780444520432.
• Bourguignon, François; Stern, Nicholas; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2006), "Evaluating the poverty impact of economic policies: some analytical challenges", in Mody, Ashoka; Pattillo, Catherine (eds.), Macroeconomic policies and poverty, London; New York: Routledge, ISBN 041570071X. Pdf version.
• Bourguignon, François; Chakravarty, Satay R. (2009), "Multidimensional poverty orderings: theory and applications", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 337–362, ISBN 9780199239115.

• Bourguignon, François; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2003). Pereira Da Silva, Luiz A.; Bourguignon, Francois (eds.). The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution: evaluation techniques and tools. World Bank and Oxford University Press, New York. doi:10.1596/0-8213-5491-4 (inactive 6 June 2025). hdl:10986/15090. ISBN 978-0-8213-5491-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2025 (link)
• Bourguignon, François; Lustig, Nora; Ferreira, Francisco (2005). Lustig, Nora; Bourguignon, Francois; Ferreira, Francisco H. G. (eds.). The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics: in East Asia and Latin America. World Bank Oxford University Press. doi:10.1596/0-8213-5861-8 (inactive 6 June 2025). hdl:10986/14844. ISBN 978-0-8213-5861-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2025 (link)
• Bourguignon, François; Sundberg, Mark (May 2007). "Aid effectiveness: opening the black box" (PDF). The American Economic Review. 97 (2). American Economic Association: 316–321. doi:10.1257/aer.97.2.316. JSTOR 30034468.
• Bourguignon, François; Ferrera, Francisco H.G.; Walton, Michael (August 2007). "Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: a research agenda". The Journal of Economic Inequality. 5 (2). Springer: 235–256. doi:10.1007/s10888-006-9042-8. S2CID 54090211.
• Bourguignon, François; Bussolo, Maurizio; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A. (2008). Pereira Da Silva, Luiz A.; Bourguignon, Francois; Bussolo, Maurizio (eds.). "The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools". Open Knowledge Repository. Palgrave Macmillan World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-0-8213-5778-1. hdl:10986/6586. ISBN 978-0-8213-5778-1.

• Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle