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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820492403321

Titolo

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 : accelerating development / / edited by Francois Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : The World Bank, c2004

ISBN

1-280-08416-2

9786610084166

1-4175-4490-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Collana

World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies. Proceedings

Altri autori (Persone)

BourguignonFrancois

PleskovicBoris

Soggetti

Development economics

Developing countries Economic conditions Periodicals

Developing countries Economic policy Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- ABOUT THIS BOOK -- INTRODUCTION -- OPENING ADDRESS -- KEYNOTE ADDRESSES -- Building Human Capital for Economic Development -- Opportunities for India in a Changing World -- Infrastructure Development in India: Emerging Challenges -- Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Growth -- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Growth -- Toward a Microeconomics of Growth -- COMMENTS -- Gur Ofer -- Sidney Winter -- Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions -- World Poverty: Causes and Pathways -- Development Strategy: Transition and Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions -- COMMENTS -- Govinda Rao -- Karen R. Polenske -- Participation, Inclusion, and Results -- Community-Based Development in the Context of Within-Group Heterogeneity -- Inclusiveness, Accountability, and Effectiveness of Development Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa -- COMMENTS -- Rohini Nayyar -- Vijayendra Rao -- Scaling Up and Evaluation -- Using Randomized Experiments and Structural Models for Scaling Up: Evidence from the PROGESA Evaluation -- Scaling Up and Evaluation --



COMMENTS -- François Bourguignon -- T. Paul Schultz.

Sommario/riassunto

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge about development. First held at World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. in 1988, the ABCDE has become broader in scope as the world's economies have become more interconnected and challenges have become more complex. Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world. Topics include Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions; Participation, Inclusion and Results and Scaling Up and Evaluation. Contributors to the volume include, Nicholas Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Azim Hasham Premji, Chairman of Bangalore's Wipro Corporation; Francois Bourguignon of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Possiy, France; Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University; Justin Lin of Hong Kong University; Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Jean Philippe Platteau of the University of Namur, Belgium; Karen Polenske of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; T. N. Srinivasan, of Yale University; and Anthony Venables of the London School of Economics. The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 is a critical reference guide for development research and will be of interest to practitioners and those studying international development and poverty reduction.