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Development Economics - Mind, Matter and Behaviour

Geoff Riley

21st May 2015

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The World Bank has become increasingly interested in behavioural economics as part of their evolving policy agenda for development strategies. Varun Gauri is senior economist at the World Bank and in a recent talk at the RSA he explained how development policy is ready for a re-design based on emerging research and evidence about how humans think, behave and decide when it comes to critical choices about education, health care and elsewhere.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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