Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is programme director of the macroeconomics and growth programme at the CEPR, chairwoman of the Review of Economic Studies, and elected fellow of the Econometric Society. She ...

In 1985 a new college graduate named Michael Kremer traveled to Kenya hoping to learn more about a topic he had studied at Harvard: economic development in low-income countries. He didn’t anticipate ...

The World Bank, in collaboration with George Washington University (GWU) and the University of Virginia (UVA), hosted the 1st World Bank-GWU-UVA Conference on “The Economics of Sustainable Development ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer has been appointed University Professor at the University of Chicago, where he will join the faculty of the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. A ...

Yale College seniors Bilal Moin and Daevan Mangalmurti have a mutual interest in international development, a branch of economics that examines the forces affecting economic development and individual ...

Development economics seeks to discover why some regions have prospered whereas others have remained stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty. The importance of this issue cannot be underestimated. Several ...

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. What Development Economics Is All About ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Elisabeth “Betty” Sadoulet, a well-known scholar and advisor in international development economics and professor emerita at UC Berkeley, passed away on October 17, 2025. Professor Sadoulet joined the ...

The outsourced business process service industry makes $300 billion a year, employs 14 million, and has a 10-year compound annual growth rate of 8%. Yet it has a fatal flaw that may eventually destroy ...