資源描述：
《Understanding the Mechanisms of Economic Development - 副本》由會員上傳分享，免費在線閱讀，更多相關(guān)內(nèi)容在學(xué)術(shù)論文-天天文庫。
1、UnderstandingtheMechanismsofEconomicDevelopmentAngusDeatonAngusDeatonisDwightD.EisenhowerProfessorofInternationalAffairsandProfessorofEconomicsandInternationalAffairsattheWoodrowWilsonSchoolofPublicandInternationalAffairsandintheDepartmentofEconomics,PrincetonUniversity,Pr
2、inceton,NewJersey.Hise-mailaggressis.UnderstandingthemechanismsofeconomicdevelopmentAngusDeatonApril2010ABSTRACTIarguethatprogressinunderstandingeconomicdevelopment(asinotherbranchesofeconomics)mustcomefromtheinvestigationofmechanisms;theassociatedemp
3、iricalanalysiscanusefullyemployawiderangeofexperimentalandnon-experimentalmethods.Idiscussthreedifferentareasofresearch:thelife-cyclesavinghypothesisanditsimplicationthateconomicgrowthdriveshigherratesofnationalsaving,thetheoryofspeculativecommoditystorageanditsimplication
4、sforthetime-seriesbehaviorofcommodityprices,andtherelationshipbetweeneconomicgrowthandnutritionalimprovement.Noneoftheseprojectshasyetbeenentirelysuccessfulinofferingacoherentaccountoftheevidence,butallillustrateaprocessoftrialanderror,inwhichalthoughmechanismsareoftenreje
5、cted,unlikelytheoreticalpropositionsaresometimessurprisinglyverified,whileinallcasesthereisaprocessoflearningaboutandsubsequentlymodifyingourunderstandingoftheunderlyingmechanisms.Economicdevelopmentdiffersfrommostfieldsineconomicsbecausethestudyoflow-incomeeconomies,andof
6、peoplelivinginlow-incomeeconomies,drawsonallbranchesofeconomics.Theparticularstudyofeconomicgrowthisperhapsclosesttobeingafieldlikelabororhealtheconomics,butwhatiscurrentlyreferredtoasdevelopmenteconomicsisbroader,sothat,althoughmyexamplesinvolveimportantissuesineconomicde
7、velopment,myconclusionsapplymorebroadlytootherareasofappliedeconomics.Inanearlierpaper,Ihavearguedthatlearningaboutdevelopmentrequiresustoinvestigatemechanisms(Deaton,2009).Findingoutabouthowpeopleinlow-incomecountriescananddoescapefrompovertyisunlikelytocomefromtheempiric
8、alevaluationofactualprojectsorprograms,whetherthroughrandomizedtrialsoreconometricmethods
