Handbook of Development Economics

Klappentext What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an intense familiarity with the development context and the universe of applicable economic models can generate successful policies. Getting cause-and-effect right is essential for policy design and implementation. With the goal of drawing researchers and policy makers closer, this volume highlights our increasing understanding of ways to combine economic theorizing with careful, thoughtful empirical work. Zusammenfassung Identifies and discusses the relevant theoretical and empirical literature that describes the fundamental problems that the policies seek to remedy or ameliorate! as well as the literature that evaluates the effects of the policies. This title presents an accurate! self-contained survey of the state of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Linking Development Policy with Development Research Trade, foreign investment, and industrial policy for developing countries Monetary and exchange rate policies Financial globalization and economic policies Policies towards international labor flows Aid and conditionality Improvement and extension of property rights Governance and development Labor regulations, unions, and social protection in developing countries: market distortions or efficient institutions? Access to finance: credit markets, insurance, and saving Population and health policies Investment in education - inputs and incentives The place of nature in economic development

Zusammenfassung
Identifies and discusses the relevant theoretical and empirical literature that describes the fundamental problems that the policies seek to remedy or ameliorate, as well as the literature that evaluates the effects of the policies. This title presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the state of the field.

Inhalt

Introduction: Linking Development Policy with Development Research Trade, foreign investment, and industrial policy for developing countries Monetary and exchange rate policies Financial globalization and economic policies Policies towards international labor flows Aid and conditionality

Improvement and extension of property rights

Governance and development

Labor regulations, unions, and social protection in developing countries: market distortions or efficient institutions?

Access to finance: credit markets, insurance, and saving Population and health policies Investment in education - inputs and incentives

The place of nature in economic development