| Title: | What Works in Development? : Thinking Big and Thinking Small |
| Publisher: | Washington : Brookings Institution, 2009 |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-81157-0282-5 |
| Size: | 245 p. |
| Languages: | English |
| Descriptors: |
[Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic conditions > economic development [Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic conditions > economic development > economic growth [Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic policy [Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > national accounts > income > distribution of income > poverty [Eurovoc] EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS > education |
| Abstract: |
Back cover: Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in the fight against global poverty. A smaller, grass-roots approach has grown more prevalent, nearly replacing the traditional big-picture. Yet despite this movement, consensus on what works for growth and development remains elusive. "Thinking big" approaches focus on macroeconomics policies, growth strategies, and other country-level factors, while "thinking small" mind-sets utilize conditional cash transfers, bed nets, and other microlevel improvements on a smaller scale.
In What works in Development, Jessica Cohen and William Easterly bring together world-renowned development analysts to examine both schools of thought. Why is the big-picture approach in crisis? What are the merits and drawbacks of the randomized evaluations used in analysing the micropolicy approach? In asking these questions, the contributors attempt to explain what policy has worked in the past, with an eye toward what is likely to work in the future. |
| Contents note: |
1. Introduction: Thinking Big versus Thinking Small
2. The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn? 3. Breaking Out of the Pocket: Do Health Interventions Work? Which Ones and in What Sense? 4. Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations in Education and Health 5. The Policy Irrelevance of the Economics of Education: Is “Normative as Positive” Just Useless, or Worse? 6. The Other Invisible Hand: High Bandwidth Development Policy 7. Big Answers for Big Questions: The Presumption of Growth Policy |
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| Barcode | Call number | Media type | Location | Section | Status |
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| 007085 | RA 1385 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Available |
