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Economic Development: Welfare Economics: Distributional Effects of Growth and Development
*Courant, P.N. (1994). How would you know a good economic development policy if you tripped over one? Hint: Don't just count jobs. National Tax Journal, 47, 863-881.
Summary of Courant article
Excerpt: Courant’s1 main thesis is that in evaluating economic development policies we should primarily be interested in measuring the effects of those policies on changes in the level and distribution of economic welfare. To support his argument, Courant discu...
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Summary of Meyer (1991)
Excerpt: Key sentence: ... some form of economic development efforts is required politically, but, as currently defined and pursued, the efforts waste resources and contribute little. This appears to be an introduction to symposium papers. As you might guess fr...
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