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Recent Advances in Empirical Microeconomic Research in Poor Countries: An Annotated Bibliography

This brief annotated bibliography is intended to inform nonspecialists of recent empirical research on individual and household economic activity in poor countries. I was greatly aided in this task by the existence of recent review papers and books on the subject and, most important, by a new volume of the Handbook of Development Economics (Behrman and Srinivasan 1995). In addition, Deaton (1995a, 1995b) provides useful surveys of essential econometric issues facing development economics, with an emphasis on practical problems of concern to applied economists. Dasgupta (1993) includes an up-to-date, comprehensive bibliography of literature related to rural poverty. These publications contain a wealth of information and essential references for anyone doing research on these topics. My task was to draw from this broad literature a few strands of research that illustrate two dominant characteristics of the current state of the field. First, applied microeconomic research in poor countries is engaged in a healthy and vigorous interaction with applied economics in general. Tools and ideas are borrowed from and contributed to the rest of the discipline on a regular basis. If it was ever the case that development economics was a ghetto, the walls are now gone.