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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Behavioral economics needs biology. How lived experience, emotion, and development shape the choices people make.

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

On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Crotty Hall hosted the workshop “Developmental Dilemmas: The Role of Power and Agency.” The talk was given by William Ferguson, a professor of economics at Grinnell College.

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 winners of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have transformed the way the world thinks about and fights extreme poverty. About 700 million people live in extreme poverty ...

AvCarb Material Solutions closed its 100,000-square-foot Sharon Township warehouse as tariff costs force manufacturers to ...