Development Economics: Theory Empirical Research and Policy Analysis

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Development Economics: Theory Empirical Research and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner teaches students to think about development in a way that is disciplined by economic theory informed by cutting-edge empirical research and connected in a practical way to contemporary development efforts. It lays out a framework for the study of developing economies that is built on microeconomic foundations and that highlights the importance in development studies of transaction and transportation costs risk information problems institutional rules and norms and insights from behavioral economics. It then presents a systematic approach to policy analysis and applies the approach to policies from around the world in the areas of targeted transfers workfare agricultural markets infrastructure education agricultural technology microfinance and health.