A biology postgraduate student was asking for some ideas on how academic economics is contributing to the study of development. Not my area but some interesting recent contributions include (others can add stuff also):
Esther Duflo's work is clearly one place to start
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo/papers
The lab at MIT is linked below
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
Emily Oster has written on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her papers are available below,.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~eoster/
A recent paper by Cormac O'Grada in the Journal of Economic Perspectives is well worth reading
http://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/jeclit/v45y2007i1p5-38.html
The Journal of Development Economics is linked below
http://ideas.repec.org/s/eee/deveco.html
Douglas Almond has written several recent papers on the effect of poor early conditions on later outcomes. They are relevant to the domain but also illustrate very well the methodology that economics researchers use to establish causal relationships
http://www.nber.org/~almond/
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently established in Washington is also doing a lot of work relevant to development economics
http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/
ok, if you get through all that it will be a good start
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O Grada has a book on famines coming out shortly with Princeton UP.
Some good links Liam. Here's a few more for people doing some of the most interesting 'applied' work in the economics of development space:
William Easterly
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/bio.htm
Paul Collier
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/
Karol Boudreaux
http://www.enterpriseafrica.org/people/id.95/people.asp
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