What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small

What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small

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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 the focus on particular microeconomic interventions such as conditional cash transfers, bed nets, and other microlevel improvements in service delivery on the ground? The book attempts to find a consensus on which approach is likely to be more effective. Contributors include Nana Ashraf (Harvard Business School), Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Anne Case (Princeton University), Jessica Cohen (Brookings),William Easterly (NYU and Brookings),Alaka Halla (Innovations for Poverty Action), Ricardo Hausman (Harvard University), Simon Johnson (MIT), Peter Klenow (Stanford University), Michael Kremer (Harvard), Ross Levine (Brown University), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard), Ben Olken (MIT), Lant Pritchett (Harvard), Martin Ravallion (World Bank), Dani Rodrik (Harvard), Paul Romer (Stanford University), and DavidWeil (Brown).

Book information

ISBN: 9780815702825
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Imprint: Brookings Institution Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.9
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 245
Weight: 390g
Height: 233mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 15mm