What works in development?  thinking big and thinking small /  [electronic resource] : 
Jessica Cohen and William Easterly, editors. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  Brookings Institution Press,  c2009. 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 245 p.) :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815704195 (ebk.) 0815704194 (ebk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development.<br/>Social planning.<br/>Development economics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD75  / .W485 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9