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Titolo |
What works in development? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking big and thinking small / / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-40372-9 |
9786612403729 |
0-8157-0419-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CohenJessica (Jessica Lee) |
EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development |
Social planning |
Development economics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 Peter Klenow. Comment by William Easterly. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what |
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