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): Antonio Nocerino • Bernard Ackah • Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz • Hannah Gordon • Jaak Aab • James Craggs the Younger • James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth • Jay Chandrasekhar • Joe Brinkman • John Eaves • Joshua Ledet • Nigel Shadbolt • Nigel Slater • Paul Robeson • Paule Marshall • Sarah Ayton • Sharan Rani Backliwal

Born in the same month (April 1947): Al Bumbry • Cristina Husmark Pehrsson • Eli Soriano • G. K. Butterfield • Gerry Rafferty • Larry Norman • Linda Bloodworth-Thomason • Lois Chiles • Nick Greiner • Pascal Lamy • Paul Fiddes • Pete Ham • Peter Riegert • Rae Armantrout • Viktor Suvorov • Willy Chirino • Đurđica Bjedov