Today in the Planet Money newsletter, five recent papers that lit lightbulbs in our brains, and are maybe worth taking a look ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 08 - Decent Work and Economic Growth and SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Why do some countries achieve sustained ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work on explaining innovation-driven economic growth. Mr Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Mr ...

The Global South Development studies program, a multidisciplinary social science program, explores the transformation of African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern societies since the 16th ...

This underscores that China, as one of the world's key economies, is continuously injecting certainty into a world facing ...

The Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS) was created in 1971 to bring together economists, mathematicians, and social scientists at Northwestern University who ...

For more than two years, residents and business owners in Chinatown have called the Sixers’ arena proposal an “existential threat” to the neighborhood. Consultants hired to independently evaluate the ...

Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation Participates in Training Program Activities to ...

A Sixth of Humanity—Independent India’s Development Odyssey’ by Devesh Kapur and Arivind Subramanian opens by framing the question of the development state. It traces the fateful choices that shaped ...