Discover the core principles of development economics, including top theories like mercantilism and structural-change theory, ...

For decades, the economics establishment generally agreed on a simple answer: Embrace free markets and avoid “industrial policy”—state-led efforts to shape what an economy produces—at all costs. No ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is a well-known series of conferences that facilitate the discussion of new knowledge about development ...

Though rarely discussed as an economic thinker, Rabindranath Tagore developed a humanistic vision of rural society, technology and development that combined ethical ideals with inherent tensions ...