What Works in Development: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What Works in Development: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
By (Author) Jessica Cohen
Edited by William Easterly
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
3rd November 2009
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Housing and homelessness
International relations
338.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
258
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Description
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 worksand what doesntin fighting global poverty The contributors, including many of the worlds most respected economic development analysts, focus on the ongoing debate over which paths to development truly maximize results.
Author Bio
Jessica Cohen is a development economic research fellow with the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the author of The White Man's Burden:Why theWest's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006).
