Introduction and summary / François Bourguignon, Boris Pleskovic -- OPENING ADDRESS -- The future of development: the next 10 years / James D. Wolfensohn -- KEYNOTE ADDRESSES -- Global distribution and redistribution: a preliminary review / François Bourguignon -- Markets, capital markets, and globalization / Vernon L. Smith -- BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS -- Development economics through the lens of psychology / Sendhil Mullainathan -- LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE -- A half-century of development / Richard N. Cooper -- The evolution of development thinking: theory and policy / Gustav Ranis -- INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT -- Infrastructure and development / Rémy Prud'homme -- TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT -- Trade liberalization in a globalizing world / Riccardo Faini
Summary
"This year's volume, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2005, presents selected papers from the 16th ABCDE meetings, held in May 2004. It reviews the lessons of 60 years of development experience, addressing key topics such as infrastructure, behavioral economics, trade, poverty, and globalization."
