Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … better diagnosis and to better-designed solutions. This paper sketches how to use behavioral insights to design development …

This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. …

development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses …, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …

In recent years, randomized controlled trials have become increasingly popular in the social sciences. In development … development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic in development policy: governance. It aims to address two key questions: (1 …

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies … without creating incentives for destructive entrepreneurship. …