What works in development?
Subtitle: thinking big and thinking small
By: Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors.
Contributors: Cohen, Jessica; Easterly, William, 1957-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780815702825
Subjects: Economic development; Social planning; Development economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : thinking big versus thinking small / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly; title: The new development economics : we shall experiment, but how shall we learn? / Dani Rodrik. Comment by Sendhil Mullainathan. Comment by Martin Ravallion; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: The other invisible hand : high bandwidth development policy / Ricardo Hausmann. Comment by Nava Ashraf. Comment by Ross Levine; title: Big answers for big questions : the presumption of growth policy / Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. Comment Peter Klenow. Comment by William Easterly.