Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report (English)

The World Development Report (WDR) has become such a fixture that it is easy to forget the circumstances under which it was born and the Bank's motivation for producing such a report at that time. In the first chapter of this essay, the authors provide a brief background on the circumstances of newly independent developing countries and summarize some of the main strands of the emerging field of development economics. This backdrop to the genesis...

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Yusuf,Shahid;

Deaton,Angus S.;

Dervis,Kemal;

Easterly,William R.;

Ito,Takatoshi;

Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene;
Document Date
2008/12/16
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
47108
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/04/20
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report
Keywords
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models

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Yusuf,Shahid; Deaton,Angus S.; Dervis,Kemal; Easterly,William R.; Ito,Takatoshi; Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene.

Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/373331468159311438

Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report (English)

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