Timothy Besley
30 works on record
Works

The economics of rotating savings and credit associations

Institutional microeconomics of development

Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth

Development challenges in the 1990s

Contemporary Issues in Development Economics

Principled Agents?
Pillars of prosperity
Wellbeing
Investing for prosperity
Confronting global poverty
Commodity-indexed debt in international lending
Incumbent behavior
Individual rationality and the social valuation of life
Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods
Unnatural experiments?
Political competition and economic performance
Land reform, poverty reduction and growth
The principles of targeting
The public choice critique of welfare economics
Does electoral accountability affect economic policy choices?
Food subsidies and poverty alleviation
The origins of state capacity
Vertical externalities in tax setting
Issue unbundling via citizens' initiatives
Fiscal anarchy in the U.K
Workfare vs. welfare
When is reimbursement health insurance optimal?
Private health insurance and the state of the NHS
Sales taxes and prices
Elected versus appointed regulators