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 ...

A $50 million grant commitment to the University of Chicago from CRI Foundation, Inc. will establish the University as the administrative home of the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics, ...

Carol M. Kopp edits features on a wide range of subjects for Investopedia, including investing, personal finance, retirement planning, taxes, business management, and career development. Development ...

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 ...

The UChicago Women’s Board invited Nobel laureate and economics professor Michael Kremer to speak at their annual dinner at the Rubenstein Forum on November 16. The Women’s Board, a social and ...

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 ...

In a world rife with complex global challenges, the need for innovative solutions to problems of development has never been greater. While we laud global efforts to eradicate extreme poverty, an ...

The report is prepared by a multi-disciplinary team from across the World Bank Group, including the WB’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency; the Poverty and Equity Global Practice; the Social ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In 2018, Congress passed the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act (BUILD Act), which combined the Overseas Private ...

David Engerman’s latest book is a thrill to read for any practitioner of development economics, but especially those who have studied or worked in South Asia. The Yale University professor of ...

Vivien Foster is the Chief Economist for the Infrastructure Vice-Presidency of the World Bank. Dean Jolliffe is a co-director of the WDR and lead economist in the Development Data Group at the World ...

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate at the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) and Visiting Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), ...