WHAT IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THEN?
Economic development has different meanings in different contexts. In rich countries, it…
Rethinking Growth: Inequality and Poverty
The United Nations declared the 1960s to be the decade of development.…
THE EVOLUTION OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Economics classes rarely spend much time on history. But the brief history…
What Development Economics Is All About
Description of development economics • Evolution of development economics • Import substitution…
Investment in human capital
Improvements in education, health and nutrition are important for intrinsic reasons as…
Growth: Back to the Future
The ultimate objective of research on economic growth is to explain cross‐country…
Development, poverty and welfare dynamics
The necessary first step in introducing the field of development economics is…
