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Chapter 34 — Further Reading
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics, PublicAffairs, 2011 — The 2019 Nobel laureates' accessible account of what RCTs have taught us.
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail, 2012 — The institutional theory. Cited in Chapter 25.
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, 2005 — The case for the "big push."
William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth, 2001 — The case against top-down aid.
Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel, "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health," Econometrica, 2004 — The foundational deworming study.
World Bank, World Development Report, annual — The most comprehensive data and analysis on global development.
Our World in Data (ourworldindata.org) — The best free data visualization platform for development statistics.
Chapter 35 — The Economics of Technology — is next.