Reference request: Development economics I am looking for some good books on Development economics. My background is in mathemathics and statistics (with working knowledge of intermediate micro and macro), so a "good" book needs to be rigorous yet also provide intuition. 

What are people reading these days when it comes to this topic?
Development economics has a distinct flavor among subfields in Economics, in that it usually opts for a more socio-economic, geopolitical and historical approach rather than mathematical modelling.
But they do use rigorous quantitative methods as regards empirical studies.

Anyway a book that can certainly show you how this subfield thinks is E. Wayne Nafziger's "Economic Development" (850 pages long - in hardcover, the book weighs 1.5 Kgr!)

See also the scientific journal "Journal of Development Economics"