The limits of stabilization [[electronic resource] ] : infrastructure, public deficits, and growth in Latin America / / edited by William Easterly, Luis Servén |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palo Alto, Calif., : Stanford University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.5/098 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EasterlyWilliam <1957->
ServenLuis |
Collana | Latin American development forum series |
Soggetto topico |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Latin America
Economic stabilization - Latin America Public-private sector cooperation - Latin America |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-08679-3
9786610086795 0-8213-8344-2 0-585-47958-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Latin American Development Forum Series; About the Contributors; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Notes; References; 2 Latin America's Infrastructure in the Era of Macroeconomic Crises; Notes; References; Appendix 2A. Infrastructure Database; Appendix 2B. The Liberalization of Infrastructure Industries in Latin America; 3 The Output Cost of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap; Appendix; Notes; References; 4 Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America; Appendix 4A; Notes; References
5 Macroeconomic Effects of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Notes; References; 6 Regulation and Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure; Appendix 6A; Notes; References; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index; Back Cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455851903321 |
Palo Alto, Calif., : Stanford University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The limits of stabilization : : infrastructure, public deficits, and growth in Latin America / / edited by William Easterly, Luis Serven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palo Alto, Calif. ; , : Stanford University Press |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 209 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 339.5/098 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EasterlyWilliam <1957->
ServenLuis |
Collana | Latin American development forum series |
Soggetto topico |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Latin America
Economic stabilization - Latin America Public-private sector cooperation - Latin America |
ISBN |
1-280-08679-3
9786610086795 0-8213-8344-2 0-585-47958-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Latin American Development Forum Series; About the Contributors; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Notes; References; 2 Latin America's Infrastructure in the Era of Macroeconomic Crises; Notes; References; Appendix 2A. Infrastructure Database; Appendix 2B. The Liberalization of Infrastructure Industries in Latin America; 3 The Output Cost of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap; Appendix; Notes; References; 4 Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America; Appendix 4A; Notes; References
5 Macroeconomic Effects of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Notes; References; 6 Regulation and Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure; Appendix 6A; Notes; References; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index; Back Cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780361403321 |
Palo Alto, Calif. ; , : Stanford University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The limits of stabilization : : infrastructure, public deficits, and growth in Latin America / / edited by William Easterly, Luis Serven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palo Alto, Calif. ; , : Stanford University Press |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 209 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 339.5/098 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EasterlyWilliam <1957->
ServenLuis |
Collana | Latin American development forum series |
Soggetto topico |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Latin America
Economic stabilization - Latin America Public-private sector cooperation - Latin America |
ISBN |
1-280-08679-3
9786610086795 0-8213-8344-2 0-585-47958-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Latin American Development Forum Series; About the Contributors; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Notes; References; 2 Latin America's Infrastructure in the Era of Macroeconomic Crises; Notes; References; Appendix 2A. Infrastructure Database; Appendix 2B. The Liberalization of Infrastructure Industries in Latin America; 3 The Output Cost of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap; Appendix; Notes; References; 4 Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America; Appendix 4A; Notes; References
5 Macroeconomic Effects of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Notes; References; 6 Regulation and Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure; Appendix 6A; Notes; References; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index; Back Cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808397103321 |
Palo Alto, Calif. ; , : Stanford University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reinventing foreign aid [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9109172/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic assistance - Developing countries - Evaluation
Economic development projects - Developing countries - Evaluation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-27212-1
1-4356-4877-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451696803321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reinventing foreign aid [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9109172/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic assistance - Developing countries - Evaluation
Economic development projects - Developing countries - Evaluation |
ISBN |
0-262-27212-1
1-4356-4877-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781802903321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reinventing foreign aid [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Easterly ; forward by Nancy Birdsall ; sponsored by the Center for Global Development |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (580 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9109172/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic assistance - Developing countries - Evaluation
Economic development projects - Developing countries - Evaluation |
ISBN |
0-262-27212-1
1-4356-4877-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Making aid work / Abhijit Banerjee and Ruimin He -- Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- It pays to be ignorant : a simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation / Lant Pritchett -- Solutions when the solution is the problem : arraying the disarray in development / Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock -- Donors and service delivery / Ritva Reinikka -- The illusion of sustainability / Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel -- An aid-institutions paradox? : a review essay on aid dependency and state building in Sub-Saharan Africa / Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas van de Walle -- Why do aid agencies exist? / Bertin Martens -- Absorption capacity and disbursement constraints / Jakob Svensson -- Donor fragmentation / Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman -- The IMF and economic development / James Raymond Vreeland -- The knowledge bank / Jonathan Morduch -- Debt relief and fiscal sustainability for heavily indebted poor countries / Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza -- Making vaccines pay / Michael Kremer -- Can we build a better mousetrap? Three new insitutions designed to improve aid effectiveness / Steven Radelet and Ruth Levine -- Competing with central planning : marketplaces for international aid / Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi -- Placing enterprise and business thinking at the heart of the war on poverty / Kurt Hoffman -- Avoid hubris: and other lessons for reformers / John McMillan -- Seven deadly sins: reflections on donor fallings / Nancy Birdsall. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815997703321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What works in development? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking big and thinking small / / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenJessica (Jessica Lee)
EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development
Social planning Development economics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-40372-9
9786612403729 0-8157-0419-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456116003321 |
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What works in development? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking big and thinking small / / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenJessica (Jessica Lee)
EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development
Social planning Development economics |
ISBN |
1-282-40372-9
9786612403729 0-8157-0419-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780431203321 |
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What works in development? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking big and thinking small / / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenJessica (Jessica Lee)
EasterlyWilliam <1957-> |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development
Social planning Development economics |
ISBN |
1-282-40372-9
9786612403729 0-8157-0419-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810728603321 |
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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