What works in development? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking big and thinking small / / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Social planning; Development economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CohenJessica (Jessica Lee) EasterlyWilliam <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 t
• Titolo autorizzato: What works in development
• ISBN: 1-282-40372-9; 9786612403729; 0-8157-0419-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456116003321
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