Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations ¿ by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty.

Rethinking the State and Development: the Importance of Palliative Development What Would Have Happened if the Government Had Done Nothing O'Connorian Models of Development: How States Literally Build Economic Growth Major Infrastructure and the Larger Economy: The Central Importance of Airports (with Jessica Schuett) How Brazilian Vocational Education Reduces Poverty - Even if No One Wants to Hire the Trainees Government Effectiveness in the Face of Debt Why Reducing Taxes For Employers Does Not Raise Employment How Rent and Verticalization Can Reduce Employment Frontier Development as Job Creation - With Social Costs When Does Not Being Green Reduce Employment? (with David Watkins) Palliative Development and the Great Theories of the State and Economic Growth Development Strategies in a Post Debt World