New development economics?
Boken t v bygger på en konferens, med artiklar i pdf som finns här. Intressant är titeln på Dani Rodriks text:
The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, But How Shall We Learn?
Menar Rodrik att Development Economics nu går in i en ny fas, likt growth theory med Barro och Romer blev new growth theory? Han diskuterar den experimenrtella trenden inom utvecklingsekonomin krtiskt och konstruktivt.
Bidraget av Banerjee är underhållande på ett annat sätt. Så här diskuterar han sambandet mellan growth & poverty reduction:
What the cross-country evidence does seem to show ... is that there is no evidence for a trade-off between growth and poverty reduction. ... This is certainly a useful correlation to know, especially given the amount of sententious rubbish that gets written justifying bad macroeconomic policies in the name of poverty reduction.
growth that is not accompanied by substantial poverty reduction is unsustainable (for political or other reasons) and therefore the episodes of sustained growth that we observe in the data are actually exactly the episodes where growth came with poverty reduction. In the relevant sense therefore, it is poverty reduction that determines growth and not the other way around.
Notera även den helt nystartade Berkely-tidskriften Journal of Globalization and Development med både Rodrik och Stiglitz som redaktörer.