As some cities boom in a growing state, small towns craft homegrown solutions for their future. NC is a rapidly growing state, but as major cities flourish, small towns face dwindling populations and ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Citations: Dillon, Andrew, Kathleen Beegle, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry. 2024. Introduction to the Journal of Development Economics Special Issue on Methods and Measurement. Journal of Development ...