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The biggest new idea in international development

Oana Borcan and Ola Olsson (Goteborg) and Louis Putterman (Brown): State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia. Luciana Cingolani (UNU) and Kaj Thomsson and Denis De Crombrugghe (Maastricht): Minding Weber More than Ever? The Impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on Development Goals. Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebie, and Sebastian Paulo (DIE): “Beyond Aid” and the Future of Development Cooperation. Jackson Faust (Birkbeck): Keep the Flow Going: The Global “Free Market” and its Institutional Support. Michael Clemens (CGD): Does Development Reduce Migration? Mahmoud Mohieldin and Dilip Ratha propose a new way to channel remittances toward development goals. Marianne Ward-Peradoza reviews Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy by Deepak Nayyar. 1,000 days, the period that decides the health and wealth of the world: Roger Thurow on a globetrotting investigation into the biggest new idea in international development. Democracy causes economic development? Daron Acemoglu, Suresh Naidu, James A Robinson, and Pascual Restrepo on new evidence showing that democracy has a robust and sizable pro-growth effect. Why Jeffrey Sachs matters: Bill Gates explains why the Millennium Villages Project, though a failure, was worth the risk (and more). Rafia Zakaria on the white tourist’s burden: Growing Western demand for altruistic vacations is feeding the white-savior industrial complex. An American passion for tyrants: David Rieff reviews The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly. John Michael McGrath on the Western allergy to other people’s policy ideas. The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads. From the UNDP, the annual Human Development Report 2014 is out.