LEADER 03513nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910456116003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-40372-9 010 $a9786612403729 010 $a0-8157-0419-4 035 $a(CKB)2420000000002836 035 $a(EBL)472684 035 $a(OCoLC)500685128 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344428 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344428 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306927 035 $a(PQKB)10419941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472684 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472684 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10347297 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240372 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000002836 100 $a20091015d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWhat works in development?$b[electronic resource] $ethinking big and thinking small /$fJessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8157-0282-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aWhat 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 t 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aSocial planning 606 $aDevelopment economics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aSocial planning. 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 676 $a338.9 701 $aCohen$b Jessica$g(Jessica Lee)$01035467 701 $aEasterly$b William$f1957-$0123572 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456116003321 996 $aWhat works in development$92455188 997 $aUNINA