What works in development? : thinking big and thinking small /
"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...
| Други автори: | Cohen, Jessica (Editor), Easterly, William, 1957- (Editor) |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2009]
|
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=298381 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
What works in development? |
Съдържание:
- 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 by Peter Klenow. Comment by William Easterly.