Reflections of a first-time replicator

Undergraduate students in my economics classes tend to have an unswerving trust that markets can solve any economic problem. And so it is in development economics, where they mainly tend to come down on the side of “development through growth” when we address whether there is a role for aid, for example, in poverty alleviation in developing economies. The issues, of course, are thorny. How do we define the poverty level? How often is growth...