Handbook of Development Economics: Volume 5

by Mark Rosenzweig and Dani Rodrik

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444529446
• ISBN13: 9780444529442
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: North-Holland
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.7" x 7.2" x 10.1"