Nora Lustig

Nora Lustig is senior advisor and chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the IDB. Lustig was a senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1989 to 1997, and she remains a nonresident senior Fellow in the same program. Prior to that, Lustig was a professor of economics with the Center of Economic Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City from 1975 to 1991. She was also the co-director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/1 titled Attacking Poverty.

Lustig has done extensive research work in development economics, with particular emphasis on the determinants of poverty and inequality; labor markets and living standards; economic crises, adjustment costs, and safety nets; and public policies for poverty reduction. She has also conducted research on economic integration and the implications of NAFTA.

Lustig is author of Mexico: The Remaking of An Economy (Brookings Institution, 1998) and editor of Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World (from Brookings and the IDB), among numerous other books and articles.