What works in development? : thinking big and thinking small /

Additional authors: Cohen, J. | Easterly, W.
Published by : Brooking Institution Press, (Washington, D.C. :) Physical details: 257 p. : ill. ; ISBN:978-0-8157-0282-5. Year: 2009 Item type: E-Book
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Includes bibliographical index.

Introduction: Thinking Big versus Thinking Small 1
Jessica Cohen and William Easterly
2 The New Development Economics:
We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn? 24
Dani Rodrik
Comment by Sendhil Mullainathan 48
Comment by Martin Ravallion 51
3 Breaking Out of the Pocket: Do Health Interventions Work?
Which Ones and in What Sense? 55
Peter Boone and Simon Johnson
Comment by Anne Case 84
Comment by Jessica Cohen 87
4 Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations
in Education and Health 91
Michael Kremer and Alaka Holla
Comment by David N. Weil 120
Comment by Paul Romer 126
5 The Policy Irrelevance of the Economics of Education:
Is “Normative as Positive” Just Useless, or Worse? 130
Lant Pritchett
Comment by Benjamin A. Olken 165
Comment by Nancy Birdsall 170
6 The Other Invisible Hand:
High Bandwidth Development Policy 174
Ricardo Hausmann
Comment by Nava Ashraf 199
Comment by Ross Levine 203
7 Big Answers for Big Questions:
The Presumption of Growth Policy 207
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Comment by Peter Klenow 222
Comment by William Easterly 227
Contributors 233
Index 235

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