An important aspect of the economic crisis of 2008-2009 has been the contraction or “freezing” of credit to nonfinancial firms. During the crisis, financial firms have displayed considerable reluctance to extend loans to nonfinancial firms (as well as households). Some observers attributed the reluctance of financial firms to lend to irrational fear, while others attributed it to a rational assessment of the fundamentals of the economy, which can be expected to reduce the number of operating firms with good projects worthy of financing.
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Economic growth, poverty and income distribution are central, inter-related facets of much economic analyses and discussions about current trends in countries across the globe. Recent writings include Anthony B. Atkinson’s “WIDER Annual Lectures 3 (1999) on the question: Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus, Francois Bourguignon’s paper to the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in 2004: “The Poverty-Growth–Inequality Triangle”, Nancy Birdsall’s WIDER Annual Lectures 9 (2005) entitled “The World is not Flat: Inequality and Justice in our Global Economy”, and the World Bank’s World Development Report 2006 on Equity and Development.
These writings constitute a rebirth of longstanding tradition in the discipline of political economy which can be traced to the time of Adam Smith. It was also certainly a feature of the work of Sir Arthur Lewis in whose memory this Conference is being held. Lewis in his Theory of Economic Growth and other writings extensively examined the determinants and the dynamics of economic growth on the premise that economic growth would alleviate poverty. For Lewis, writing in 1938, there could not have been “many places in the world which touch the depths of West Indian poverty or show so little progress.” (Quotation in Tignor 2006, page 45).
