What works in development? : thinking big and thinking small

What works in development? : thinking big and thinking small / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors.

"What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what works--and what doesn't--in fighting global poverty? The contributors, including many of the world's most respected economic...

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Other Authors: Cohen, Jessica (Jessica Lee) (Editor), Easterly, William, 1957- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Economic development.
Social planning.
Development economics.
economic development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Development economics
Economic development
Social planning
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : thinking big versus thinking small / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly
  • The new development economics : we shall experiment, but how shall we learn? / Dani Rodrik. Comment by Sendhil Mullainathan. Comment by Martin Ravallion
  • Breaking out of the pocket : do health interventions work? Which ones and in what sense? / Peter Boone and Simon Johnson. Comment by Anne Case. Comment by Jessica Cohen
  • Pricing and access : lessons from randomized evaluations in education and health / Michael Kremer and Alaka Holla. Comment by David N. Weil. Comment by Paul Romer
  • The policy irrelevance of the economics of education : is "normative as positive" just useless, or worse? / Lant Pritchett. Comment by Benjamin A. Olken. Comment by Nancy Birdsall
  • The other invisible hand : high bandwidth development policy / Ricardo Hausmann. Comment by Nava Ashraf. Comment by Ross Levine
  • Big answers for big questions : the presumption of growth policy / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. Comment by Peter Klenow. Comment by William Easterly.

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