Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Giovanni Andrea Cornia, is a development economist. He is professor of economics, department of economics and management, at the University of Florence. He has previously been the director of the Regional Institute of Economic Planning of Tuscany, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 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.

9 April 1947

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Allen Jenkins • Camilla Battista da Varano • Dennis Sarfate • Gai Assulin • Jay Chandrasekhar • Jean Bruchési • Jenna Jameson • Julian Dash • Megan Connolly (actress) • Michael Learned • Peter Moores (businessman) • Sol Hurok

Born in the same month (April 1947): David Omand • Glenn Cornick • Iggy Pop • Josep Borrell • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • Larry Norman • Linda Bloodworth-Thomason • Michael T. Wright (university administrator) • Mike Chapman • Pete Ham • Ray Fosse • Robert Burgess (sociologist) • Thanos Mikroutsikos • Virendra Sharma