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 ...

Junius Olivier attended the same school as life-long inspiration Arthur Lewis. Here, he discusses their shared field of development economics and the rewards of teaching. For 125 years, research has ...

This course offers an introduction to development economics. Development economics studies the processes of economic growth, poverty, inequality, structural change, and political and 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 ...

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate at the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) and Visiting Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), ...