Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About this Book -- Introduction -- Opening Address -- Opening Address -- Opening Address -- Keynote Addresses -- Overcoming the Samaritan's Dilemma in Development Aid -- Learning, Growth, and Development: A Lecture in Honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta -- Weak States, Strong States, and Development -- Personal Histories and Poverty Traps -- Environmental Commons and the Green Economy -- Voluntary Pledges and Green Growth in the Post-Copenhagen Climate -- World Economic Crises: Commodity Prices and Environmental Scarcity as Missing Links -- Comment -- Postcrisis Debates on Development Strategy -- Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise the Growth Rate? Some International Evidence -- Comment -- The Political Economy of Fragile States -- State Fragility, Governance Indicators, and the Risk of Civil Conflict -- Comment -- New Ways of Measuring Welfare -- Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development, and Growth -- Happiness Measures as a Guide to Development Policy? Promise and Potential Pitfalls -- Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being: Comments on "Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development, and Growth," by Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers -- Comment -- Social Programs and Transfers: Are We Learning? -- The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa -- Comment -- Closing Remarks -- Closing Remarks -- Footnotes -- Introduction -- Opening Address -- Opening Address -- Opening Address -- Overcoming the Samaritan's Dilemma in Development Aid -- Learning, Growth, and Development: A Lecture in Honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta -- Weak States, Strong States, and Development -- Personal Histories and Poverty Traps -- Voluntary Pledges and Green Growth in the Post-Copenhagen Climate.

World Economic Crises: Commodity Prices and Environmental Scarcity as Missing Links -- Comment -- Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise the Growth Rate? Some International Evidence -- Comment -- State Fragility, Governance Indicators, and the Risk of Civil Conflict -- Comment -- Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development, and Growth -- Happiness Measures as a Guide to Development Policy? Promise and Potential Pitfalls -- Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being: Comments on "Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development, and Growth," by Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers -- Comment -- The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa -- Comment -- Closing Remarks -- Closing Remarks -- Back Cover.