Academic research and policy research are two different things

The case for investing in context-specific policy research and implementation strategies

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I: How best can we harvest the fruits of the credibility revolution?

Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University once raised an interesting question regarding the field of development economics:

I used to think there was such a thing as development economics. There are still richer and poorer countries, of course, but is there a “development economics,” a special type of economics for poor countries? I don’t think so.

The same question can be asked of policy research in low-income countries — which is the subject of this post.