COMMENTS

  1. Development Economics: An Overview - Cornell University

    Development economics research ultimately describes and explores the causal reasons why some countries, communities and people are rich and others are poor.

  2. UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION

    By pioneering an approach to empirical research for providing such answers, the 2019 Laureates ― Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer ― have transformed development economics. Their approach remained guided by microeconomic theory and the use of microeconomic data.

  3. Development Economics: A Theoretical and Historical Perspective

    research agenda that, while "rethinking" development economics, can address the formidable challenges posed by the development of a heterogeneous periphery dominated by the new giants in Asia and Latin America. Key words: development economics, Albert Hirschman, increasing returns, induced investment, Paul Krugman, market creation, scale economies.

  4. Development Economics through the decades - World Bank

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Yusuf, Shahid, 1949-Development economics through the decades : a critical look at thirty years of the world development report / by Shahid Yusuf. Includes bibliographical references and index.

  5. Development Policy and Development Economics: An Introduction

    Poverty reduction, economic growth, and development most broadly are the outcomes of a complex set of interactions across the entire range of economic policies and institutions.

  6. Development Economics through the decades - World Bank

    development economics. It then provides a sweeping examination of the coverage of the WDRs, reflecting on the key development themes synthesized by these reports and assessing how the research they present has contributed to pol-icy making and development thought. The book then looks ahead and points to some of the big