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This dissertation studies the impact that various programs, from small-scale behavioral interventions to large-scale multi-national projects, have on those living in the developing world.The first chapter of this dissertation, "Business Training and Behavioral Biases: A Field Experiment with Micro-Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia", is joint work with Biruk Tekle, a researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute. We conducted a field experiment with 590 small businesses in Addis Ababa where we designed two, cross-cut interventions, that were motivated by simple heuristics and physical convenience. We provided rm owners: (1) a highly simplified informational poster to be conveniently placed in their business, and (2) an additional wallet to facilitate the separation of business and personal finances. Business owners consulted the poster on a regular basis and reported higher investment, revenue, and prot. The wallet was actively used to keep their expenses separated, but had mixed evidence on investment and prot. We conclude that the content from a business training can be cost-effectively delivered to micro-enterprises and that the lack of access to simplified and convenient management information can partially explain why protable investments commonly go unrealized. This project was generously funded by the Center for Effective Global Action, East African Social Science Translation.My second dissertation chapter, "Myopic Loss Aversion and Multi-Dimensional Framing: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Micro-Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia", is joint work with Sameh Habib (Ph.D. Student, UCSC) and Biruk Tekle (Researcher, EDRI) and looks at the puzzle of low reinvestment through the idea of myopic loss aversion (MLA). Using data from a lab-in-the-field experiment with 199 retail shops in Ethiopia, we first replicate [87] and find that our sample does not display any tendencies of myopic loss aversion when bracketing the traditional risky gamble across time. Motivated by recent theoretical work from [39] along with anecdotal discussions with small shops, we then extend the experimental design to offer the same gambles packaged as a cross-sectional, portfolio of investments. We find that respondents willingly take on more risk when looking across a basket of products, suggesting that tendencies of loss aversion could be mitigated by adjustments to the frame over which investments are made, leading to higher business investment.The third chapter of this dissertation is an impact evaluation of five large-scale agricultural programs run by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a branch of the United Nations based in Rome, Italy. This chapter is co-authored with Dr. Alessandra Garbaro (Econometrician, IFAD). When the 2015 Millennium Goals were put in place, IFAD and other large governmental organizations began aiming their funds at alleviating the conditions of children under the age of five. Given the focus of IFAD to finance agricultural projects in the developing world, the theorized first order effect of said programs should be an increase in agricultural production among smallholder farmers. Once these higher yields are realized, it should lead to improved access to not just food, but also food varieties. This should then imply an increase in nutritional intake by all members of the family, specifically the children. The goal of this paper is to assess the impact that a random sample of IFAD projects has had on childhood nutrition by looking at a variety of anthropometric outcomes. Our overall findings are mixed, finding that some projects have led to improved child well-being, others have done the opposite, and the remaining project effects are unable to be detected due to low precision.

Frontmatter --EDITORIAL PREFACE --BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY --CONTENTS --Introduction --PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH --I. Agriculture And The Political Scientist --II. The Threshold Of Economic Growth --III. Social Pre-Conditions And Effects Of Moving Over The Threshold Of Economic Development --IV. Shares Of Labor And Capital In The Gross Domestic Product Of 40 Countries In The Decade 1953-1962 --V. How Not To Develop A Country: An Essay In Economic Pathology --Agriculture --VI. Lack Of Institutional Flexibility In Agriculture --VII. Agricultural Turning Points In Economic Development --VIII. Three Concepts Of Agricultural Over-Population --IX. Problems Of Socialist Agriculture --Yugoslavia --X. Economics Of Socialism In Jugoslavia: The Third Stage -- The Reform --XI. Some Aspects Of The Policy Of Worker's Income In Yugoslavia

Promoting private sector development and entrepreneurship in particular, has become a defining feature of development policy in recent years. At a time when global development is being jeopardized by man-made and natural disasters, including financial crises and climate change, the need to integrate socially beneficial innovation and the pursuit of profit with the role of state and non-state actors, is becoming more urgent than ever. This volume brings together internationally leading scholars to explore the nature of economic development and its relationship with the various concepts of entrepreneurship. It identifies the concerns and issues in measuring the impact of entrepreneurship, evaluates and presents empirical evidence on the role of entrepreneurship and economic development, and dissects the evolving relationship between the state and entrepreneurs. The chapters emphasise the importance of institutions for understanding how entrepreneurs can play their innovative, Schumpeterian role to the greatest benefit to society, and that such institutional-entrepreneurial interactions, even beyond the traditional theatre of the nation state and the national economy. remains a major challenge. This book is indispensable reading for all interested in development economics, entrepreneurship and business management.

In this essay, I review recent research on the effects of economic development on democracy. On the theoretical side, for the first time there has been a systematic attempt to bring the types of formal models developed by economists & political scientists outside of comparative politics to bear on the origins of democracy. I present a simple analytical framework that captures some of the results in this literature. On the empirical side, the issue of identifying causal relationships in the data is finally receiving attention. However, the application of techniques adopted from best-practice econometrics shows no evidence that economic development has a causal effect on democracy. Neither does it support the idea that economic development influences the probability of coups but not democratizations. More likely, & in line with the model I develop, income per capita & democracy are correlated because the same features of a society simultaneously determine how prosperous & how democratic it is. There is still a lot to learn on this topic. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.

Since 1964, Leading Issues in Economic Development has been a market leading undergraduate development textbook. Reviewers praise the new edition for its explanation of theories and its wide range of references to authors, international organisations and web sites.

Regional economic development is development activity carried out by the local government, especially in the Bengkayang Regency area where development is carried out together with the local community, so that the government can manage and utilize existing resources optimally so that the regional economic development of Bengkayang Regency and the welfare of the local community Bengkayang Regency is better. One of the benchmarks for the success of regional economic development and community services in the region can be seen from the regional economic growth. The purpose of this research is to analyze the regional economic development strategies carried out by the Bengkayang Regency Government in increasing the economic growth of Bengkayang Regency so that it can increase the regional development of Bengkayang Regency. This research was conducted for almost one year and used qualitative research methods with a descriptive approach. The results of this study show the development strategies carried out by Bengkayang Regency in accelerating good development and reducing poverty, namely improving the quality of education, improving the quality of health, improving the quality of religious life, improving the quality of governance, improving the quality and quantity of infrastructure, increasing productivity of regional superior sectors, increased village development, increased development of border areas, and increased environmental sustainability.

Intro -- THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION: HISTORY AND REAUTHORIZATION ISSUES -- THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION: HISTORY AND REAUTHORIZATION ISSUES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION: A REVIEW OF ELEMENTS OF ITS STATUTORY HISTORY -- SUMMARY -- PRECURSORS TO THE CREATION OF EDA -- Area Redevelopment Act: Placed-Based Federal Economic Development Assistance -- Public Works Acceleration Act: Infrastructure-Based Economic Stimulus -- Appalachian Regional Development Act: Federally Chartered Multi-state Regionalism -- PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965: BUILDING ON PAST LESSONS -- PWEDA Amendments of the 1970s: Wider Net, Same Mission -- Title VIII, EDA and Disaster Recovery -- Title IX, Special Economic Development and Adjustment Assistance -- Title X and Other EDA Anti-recession Legislation -- Special Impact Area Program, 1971 -- Title X, Job Opportunities Program, 1974 -- Public Works Employment Act, 1976 -- PWEDA Amendments of 1976 -- Redrafting EDA's Authority: PWEDA Amendments of 1998 -- PWEDA 1998 -- Refining the 1998 Amendments: EDA Reauthorization Act of 2004 -- HIGHLIGHTS OF 2004 AMENDMENTS -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION: REAUTHORIZATION AND FUNDING ISSUES IN THE 111TH CONGRESS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION ISSUES -- RLF Management Accountability and Asset Conversion -- Relative Needs Thresholds and Federal-Local Cost Share Requirements -- Federal Interest in Real Property Assets -- EDA REAUTHORIZATION -- S. 2778, the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2009 -- Economic Distress: Unemployment, Per-Capita Income, and Outmigration -- Adjustment of Federal Contribution to EDA Projects -- Administration and Conversion of EDA Revolving Loan Funds -- RLF Brightfield Demonstration Projects

This paper is aimed at contextualizing the approach of Community Based Development as an alternative solution of communities to reduce dependency to the outer forces. It is conducted by examining a heavily urbanized area in Central Jakarta and to compare it with different scales of contexts. Kelurahan Cideng has very unique context since its urban environment has particular population composition of the dichotomic extremes: the poor and the rich as well as those involved in formal and informal employment. The study treats a national government's policy of the integration of Posyandu, BKK and provincial initiative of PAUD as the interplay with the socio-economic context of Cideng.