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What works in development? : thinking big and thinking small
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- Creator
- Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- vi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0815702825, 9780815704195, 9786612403729, 0815704194, 1282403729, 9780815702825
- OCLC
- ocn500685128, ocn294886468
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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