Development economics : theory and practice Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet.

Previous edition: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

<P></P><P>Introduction</P><P>Economic development</P><P>Development economics</P><P>Why should we be interested in development economics?</P><P></P><B><P>1 What is Development? Indicators and Issues </P></B><P>Seven dimensions of development </P><P>Income and income growth </P><P>Poverty and hunger </P><P>Inequality and inequity </P><P>Vulnerability to poverty </P><P>Basic needs: human development </P><P>Sustainability in the use of natural resources </P><P>Quality of life </P><P>Development goes beyond income, but can income growth deliver development? </P><P>Conclusion: development is multidimensional, so can we agree on what it is? </P><B><P></P><P>2 The State of Development </P></B><P>Income growth and the convergence club </P><P>Poverty and hunger </P><P>Inequality </P><P>Basic human needs </P><P>Sustainability in resource use </P><P>Quality of life </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P></P><P>3 History of Thought in Development Economics </P></B><P>Introduction: why history matters </P><P>Basic principles in analysing the history of thought in development economics </P><P>Selected schools of thought in development </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P></P><P>4 Impact Evaluation of Development Policies and Programs </P></B><P>How do we know what works for development? </P><P>Objectives and overview of impact evaluation </P><P>Methods of impact evaluation </P><P>Experimental design—rct </P><P>Matching method to construct control groups: propensity score matching </P><P>Difference-in-differences method </P><P>Generalization of the diff-in-diffs approach: roll-outs with panel data </P><P>Regression discontinuity designs (rdd) </P><P>Event analysis and event-severity analysis </P><P>Instrumental variables estimation </P><P>Making impact evaluation more useful for policy purposes </P><P>Qualitative methods </P><B><P></P><P>Appendix 4: Econometrics of Impact Analysis </P></B><P>Randomization </P><P>Propensity score matching </P><P>Difference-in-differences </P><P>Staggered entry with panel data: roll-out of a program </P><P>Regression discontinuity </P><P>Event analysis </P><P>Instrumental variables estimation </P><B><P></P><P>5 Poverty and Vulnerability Analysis </P></B><P>Characterize welfare: choice of an indicator of wellbeing </P><P>Separating the poor from the non-poor: choosing a poverty line (<I>z</I>) </P><P>Poverty profile and aggregate indicators </P><P>Vulnerability </P><P>Other aspects of poverty </P><P>Correlates of poverty: who are the poor? Where do they live? What do they do? How do they live? </P><P>The geography of poverty: poverty maps </P><P>Are there behavioral poverty traps? </P><P>Reducing poverty </P><B><P></P><P>6 Inequality and Inequity </P></B><P>Describing and measuring inequality </P><P>Decomposing inequality </P><P>Relationship between level of income (gdp<SUB>pc</SUB>) and inequality: empirical evidence on the kuznets inverted u-curve </P><P>The long-term evolution of inequality </P><P>Pro-poor growth and the growth incidence curve </P><P>The growth-inequality-poverty development triangle </P><P>What roles for ethnic fractionalization and genetic diversity? </P><P>What role for equity in development? </P><P>Inclusive growth </P><B><P></P><P>7 International Trade and Industrialization Strategies </P></B><P>Trade openness </P><P>Gains from trade: why countries trade, but not everyone gains </P><P>Absolute, comparative, and competitive advantage </P><P>Trade policy and indicators of protection </P><P>Using trade policy for development: tariffs and subsidies </P><P>Dynamic gains from trade: import-substitution industrialization as a policy gamble </P><P>Trade and industrialization strategies: how to choose? </P><P>Is trade good for growth? </P><P>Is trade good for poverty reduction? </P><P>Trade and the environment </P><P>Trade and food security </P><P>Decline of the wto and threats to multilateralism </P><P></P><B><P>8 Explaining Economic Growth: The Macro Level </P></B><P>The growth puzzle </P><P>Generic modeling of income growth </P><P>Capital accumulation for growth: the Harrod-Domar model </P><P>Productivity growth and factor deepening: growth accounting in the Solow model </P><P>Economic growth and structural transformation </P><P>The role of agriculture in growth: dual-economy models </P><P>The role of agriculture in growth: other models </P><P>Endogenous economic growth</P><B><P></P><P>9 Exchange Rate Policies and Development </P></B><P>Trade, financial flows, and exchange rate </P><P>Exchange-rate regimes </P><P>The real exchange rater and its effect on real balances </P><P>Two examples of exchange-rate shocks </P><B><P></P><P>10 The Economics of Farm Households</P></B><P>Importance of farm households </P><P>Definitions of farm households </P><P>Farm-household behavior models </P><P>Responses to market signals: separability </P><P>Net buyers, net sellers, and food security </P><P>Can the family farm be competitive and survive? </P><P>Risk and self-insurance in household behavior </P><P>Intra-household allocation of resources and gender roles </P><P></P><B><P>11 Population and Development </P></B><P>Definitions: demographic concepts </P><P>Some data for world population </P><P>History of world population and demographic transition </P><P>Causes of population growth </P><P>Population policy </P><P>Other issues in population and development </P><B><P></P><P>12 Labor and Migration </P></B><P>Labor and employment </P><P>Rural-urban migration </P><P>Extensions of the model and empirical results </P><P>Impacts of migration </P><P>Conclusion </P><B><P></P><P>13 Financial Services for The Poor </P></B><P>The generic-lender problem </P><P>Commercial banks </P><P>Local moneylenders, or "usurers" </P><P>Local sources of credit based on interlinkages in value chains </P><P>Informal institutions: Roscas </P><P>Village banks and self-help groups </P><P>The microfinance revolution: group lending </P><P>Mfis with individual loans: proximity lending </P><P>Other issues in microfinance lending </P><P>Impact evaluations on microfinance lending </P><P>Increasing savings: offering saving opportunities and incentives </P><P>Can the poor be insured? The promise of index-based weather insurance </P><P>Mobile money and digital credit </P><P>Conclusions on mfis: how useful are they for poverty reduction? </P><B><P></P><P>14 Social Programs and Targeting </P></B><P>Determinants of income and paths out of poverty </P><P>A typology of social programs </P><P>The targeting of social programs: benefits and costs </P><P>Errors in targeting: exclusion (type i) and inclusion (type ii) errors </P><P>Targeting methods </P><P>Quality of targeting </P><P>Other issues in implementation of transfers </P><P>Using social-safety-net (ssn) programs for efficiency gains and growth </P><P>Impact evaluation of social programs: some examples </P><P>The debate over cash transfers vs development programs for poverty reduction </P><B><P></P><P>15 Sustainable Development and The Environment </P></B><P>Links between development, resource conservation, and environmental sustainability </P><P>Negative externalities </P><P>Incomplete property rights </P><P>Public goods </P><P>The sustainability objective </P><P>Dilemmas in the environment-development relation </P><P>Introducing new markets: payments for environmental services </P><B><P></P><P>16 Common Property Resources and Determinants of Cooperation </P></B><P>Why are there common property resources? </P><P>Economics of cpr use </P><P>Grounds for pessimism about cooperative behavior </P><P>Cooperative outcomes in non-cooperative games </P><P>Determinants of cooperation and collective action </P><P&