The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and … adopt new ways of doing things. This approach can be structured to address the time inconsistency between a development …

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13 short, nontechnical briefing notes prepared in response to this … request, summarizing a selection of major insights in development economics in the past decade. The notes synthesize evidence …

The need to construct an effective strategy for industrial development in low-income countries has been largely ignored … by development economists because industrial policies have failed in many developing countries. This does not imply …, however, that industrial development cannot be promoted. This paper attempts to synthesize the conventional wisdom in …

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place …

understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a … realities can contribute constructively to development policy by enabling careful intra-country comparisons to be made of the … the generalizability (or "external validity" ) of claims regarding the efficacy of development interventions, especially …

inclusive development …

of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make … decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing development policy. This paper elaborates on the three principles of …

The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a … -- understood as both "the past" and "the discipline" -- and development policy by (a) clarifying what the craft of historical … research (by economists and economic historians) in contemporary development policy; and (c) offering some general principles …