"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).
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