03479nam 2200613Ia 450 991081072860332120240118175114.01-282-40372-997866124037290-8157-0419-4(CKB)2420000000002836(EBL)472684(OCoLC)500685128(SSID)ssj0000344428(PQKBManifestationID)11256387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344428(PQKBWorkID)10306927(PQKB)10419941(MdBmJHUP)muse35227(Au-PeEL)EBL472684(CaPaEBR)ebr10347297(CaONFJC)MIL240372(MiAaPQ)EBC472684(EXLCZ)99242000000000283620091015d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhat works in development?[electronic resource] thinking big and thinking small /Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editorsWashington, D.C. Brookings Institution Pressc20091 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8157-0282-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 development analysts, focus on the ongoing debate over which paths to development truly maximize results. Should we emphasize a big-picture approach-focusing on the role of institutions, macroeconomic policies, growth strategies, and other country-level factors? Or is a more grassroots approach the way to go, with tEconomic developmentSocial planningDevelopment economicsEconomic development.Social planning.Development economics.338.9Cohen Jessica(Jessica Lee)1035467Easterly William1957-123572MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810728603321What works in development3939162UNINA