Contemporary Issues in Development Economics

Edited by Timothy Besley

in International Economic Association Series from Palgrave Macmillan

Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-52974-9
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 World Economic Outlook and the Challenges to the UN Development Agenda Beyond 2015

Pingfan Hong

Ch 2 Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay

Nora Lustig

Ch 3 “Small Miracles” — Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy: The World Development Report 2015

Allison Demeritt and Karla Hoff

Ch 4 Culture and Collective Action

Gérard Roland and Yang Xie

Ch 5 Is Poverty in Africa Overestimated Because of Poor Data?

Andrew Dabalen, Alvin Etang, Rose Mungai, Ayago Wambile and Waly Wane

Ch 6 Filling Gaps when Poverty Data are Missing: Updating Poverty Estimates Frequently with Different Data Sources in Jordan

Hai-Anh Dang, Peter Lanjouw and Umar Serajuddin

Ch 7 The Social Pension and Time Allocation in Poor South African Households

Vimal Ranchhod and Martin Wittenberg

Ch 8 Assessing the Impact of Social Grants on Inequality: A South African Case Study

Reinhard Schiel, Murray Leibbrandt and David Lam

Ch 9 Speculative Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy: South African Experience

Shakill Hassan

Ch 10 Challenges of Urbanisation in India

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Ch 11 Are Foreign Direct Investments in the Balkans Different?

Saul Estrin and Milica Uvalic

Ch 12 Time-consistency and Dictator Punishment: Discretion Rather than Rules?

Shaun Larcom, Mare Sarr and Tim Willems

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