development economics research papers

The Journal of Development Economics publishes original research papers relating to all aspects of economic development - from immediate policy concerns to structural problems of underdevelopment. The emphasis is on quantitative or analytical work, which is novel and relevant. The Journal does not … View full aims & scope $4190

What's the latest in international economic development research? Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC.With more than 135 papers presented (and almost all of them available for download), it's a great way to see recent trends in the international development research by economists and to learn about new findings.

New research on development economics from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including the between mental health and economic productivity, the "Argentina Paradox," and strategy and execution for emerging markets. ... This paper, based on a study of 4,771 agents in Tanzania, shows how training and ongoing guidance improve their ...

The editors of Review of Development Economics invite scholars to submit papers for a special issue entitled "Family and Consumer Responses to Crises in the Uncertain World". The world now faces a great deal of uncertainty due to more than one crisis. We welcome submissions of papers providing rigorous empirical analysis on family decisions under a crisis (or crises), on consumption ...

Rather, the aim is to introduce the broad themes of development economics, to familiarize the reader with central issues and seminal findings that have guided the field's evolution of the past ...

English. Last weekend, the North East Universities Development Consortium held its annual conference, with more than 160 papers on a wide range of development topics and from a broad array of low- and middle-income countries. We've provided bite-sized, accessible (we hope!) summaries of every one of those papers that we could find on-line.

Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low-income countries. | Explore the latest full-text research PDFs, articles ...

Development Economics. The Development Economics Program studies the forces that contribute to economic development, particularly in less developed nations. It explores the role of decisions by households, firms, and governments, the effects of development aid policies, and the consequences of rising incomes in emerging economies.

of development economics over the past three decades as well as to students, scholars, and policy makers in the field of development. Shahid Yusuf is Economic Adviser in the De-velopment Economics Research Group at the World Bank and was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century.

This paper is a product of the Research Support Unit, Development Economics. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world.

research in development economics; (6) figuring out the research frontier in each topic by actively reading the latest papers; and (7) being able to read and discuss intelligently a published or work-ing paper in development economics. Aims (1) and (2) are addressed during the econometrics review. Aims (3) and (4) are achieved through the final ...

VoxDev. Development economics from research to practice. VoxDev is a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues. Expert contributors provide insightful commentary, analysis, and evidence on a wide range of policy challenges in formats that we hope are accessible to a wide audience interested ...

Research in World Bank Operations," by Martin Ravallion, World Bank Policy Research Paper Series, no. WPS 5892, 2011.The survey in Chapter 2 was carried out by Jean- ... share of the Bank's research and has a high profile internationally in development economics research. DEC also includes the Development Data Group (DECDG) and the ...

January 1997. Development Economics Papers, Publications from The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) - an LSE research centre bringing together world-class academics to put economics and related disciplines at the forefront of research and policy.

The cost of the intervention was just under $2 per vehicle for the stickers, and $5 per vehicle per year for the lottery, or a total of $7,000 per 1,000 vehicles per year. Researchers estimated that the intervention saved 1200 disability-adjusted years of life (DALYs) at a cost of $5.80 per year.

NEUDC is a large development economics conference, with more than 160 papers on the program, so it's a nice way to get a sense of new research in the field. Thankfully, since NEUDC posts submitted papers, I was able to mostly catch up. I went through 147 of the papers and summarized them below, by topic. If a paper you loved or presented isn ...

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo1. Massachusetts Institute of technology, Department of Economics and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Abstract: Randomized experiments have become a popular tool in development economics research, and have been the subject of a number of criticisms.

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development economics must be concerned with keeping alive the ʺfoundational motivation of the subject of economics in general.ʺ This four‐volume collection of seminal papers in development economics captures much of the spirit of Sen's injunction. This first volume aims to pin down key themes,

Bibliometric units are researched from the Scopus database using keywords "economic development", "economic growth" and "poverty". The main contribution of this analysis is the review of existing ...

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 145. June 2020 with Abhijit Banerjee and Nancy Qian. The influence of randomized controlled trials on development economics research and development policy The State of Economics, The State of the World, 2019, edited by Kaushik Basu, David Rosenblatt and Claudia Sepulveda, MIT Press

The objectives of the study were to assess the impact of VSLAs in economic development for rural people of Salima district, to identify the key integrated approaches reflecting economic strengthening expertise that could be adopted or modified to best suit the local context and rural households' capacities, and to understand how economic ...

This solutions manual provides answers for selected discussion questions and for all problems in the text. Please do not post these answers on websites available to the general public. Please send comments, questions and suggestions regarding the text, solutions manual, or PowerPoint presentations to [email protected]. I welcome your feedback! Development Economics Theory Empirical ...

This paper uses detailed study of a proposed research and development (R&D) tax credit in one U.S. state, New Hampshire, to gain insight on an important public finance issue: the motivations for and the economic costs and benefits of R&D tax credits. the paper reviews the policy considerations and assesses the potential economic impacts of enacting a proposed R&D tax credit in New Hampshire in ...

This study proposes a new approach to enhance OWF landscapes for tourism development, thereby balancing the distribution of costs and benefits between CVGs and tourists. The research focuses on Beihai City in the Beibu Gulf Economic Region, utilizing a combination of Q-methodology and choice experiments that incorporates cut-offs.

The reduction and management of construction waste is crucial for the sustainable development of the construction industry. This research aims to explore a comparative analysis on decoupling relationship between economic growth and construction waste generation on European Union (EU) and Chi et al., 2020 to 2020 in the construction industry, through an integrated method framework of "Tapio ...