One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model … 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 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 …

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 …

Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong …

socioeconomic development in Africa …This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The …

its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly … the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …This paper draws on history, anthropology, and economics to examine the dynamics and extent of women's contribution to …. Although women's contribution to growth and economic development seems to be positive and significant in predominantly …

Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women …'s economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …