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 ...

T he International Economic Development Council (IEDC) has unveiled the winners of its 2025 Excellence in Economic Development Awards. These projects and organizations were selected by an esteemed ...

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

Whether it’s in working to eliminate poverty, reinventing development economics, examining social safety nets, or improving democratic institutions, Finance & Development magazine has regularly ...

Kari Polanyi Levitt is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, and was the George Beckford Professor of Political Economy at the University of the West Indies, Mona from 1995 to ...

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 ...

The Industrial Revolution that brought unprecedented economic growth to Western Europe and North America also coincided with a new epoch in population dynamics (Galor, 2005). Countries moved from a ...

Ameyavikram Pathak is Chief Executive Officer of investment management firm AVP Holdings and member of the Finance Committee of the Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning. Armen Baibourtian is ...