J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and Fellow of the AAEA and AAAS. His research focuses on modeling impacts of development policies on households and local economies in poor countries, international migration, labor, and natural resource conservation.Travis J. Lybbert is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on topics ranging from poverty dynamics, risk, innovation and technology adoption to nutrition, microfinance, and hope and aspirations.

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• List of SidebarsList of Figures and Tables1. What Development Economics Is All About2. What Works and What Doesn’t?3. Income4. Poverty5. Inequality6. Human Development7. Growth8. Institutions9. Agriculture10. Structural Transformation11. Information and Markets12. Finance13. International Trade and GlobalizationEpilogueNotesIndex

J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and Fellow of the AAEA and AAAS. His research focuses on modeling impacts of development policies on households and local economies in poor countries, international migration, labor, and natural resource conservation.Travis J. Lybbert is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on topics ranging from poverty dynamics, risk, innovation and technology adoption to nutrition, microfinance, and hope and aspirations.

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• List of SidebarsList of Figures and Tables1. What Development Economics Is All About2. What Works and What Doesn’t?3. Income4. Poverty5. Inequality6. Human Development7. Growth8. Institutions9. Agriculture10. Structural Transformation11. Information and Markets12. Finance13. International Trade and GlobalizationEpilogueNotesIndex

J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and Fellow of the AAEA and AAAS. His research focuses on modeling impacts of development policies on households and local economies in poor countries, international migration, labor, and natural resource conservation.Travis J. Lybbert is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis and an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on topics ranging from poverty dynamics, risk, innovation and technology adoption to nutrition, microfinance, and hope and aspirations.

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• List of SidebarsList of Figures and Tables1. What Development Economics Is All About2. What Works and What Doesn’t?3. Income4. Poverty5. Inequality6. Human Development7. Growth8. Institutions9. Agriculture10. Structural Transformation11. Information and Markets12. Finance13. International Trade and GlobalizationEpilogueNotesIndex