Essentials of Development Economics [Paperback]

Written to provide students with the critical tools used in todays development economics research and practice,Essentials of Development Economicsrepresents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses,Essentials of Development Economicsoffers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. Each chapter concludes with an embedded QR code that connects readers to ancillary audiovisual materials and supplemental readings on a website curated by the authors. By mastering the material in this book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to higher-level development economics courses.

J. Edward Tayloris Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of the Rural Economies of the Americas Program (REAP) at the University of California, Davis. He was coeditor of theAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economicsand has written extensively on the economy-wide impacts of agricultural and development policies. His publications includeBeyond Experiments in Development Economics: Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation;Village Economies: The Design, Estimation, and Use of Villagewide Economic Models; andWorlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Listed inWho's Who in Economics,he has advised a number of foreign governments and international development agencies on matters related to economic development. His development economics work spans four continents.

Travis J. Lybbertis Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He has published research in applied microeconomics on topics ranging from poverty dlƒ½