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 city of Boone is among four Iowa communities honored with a BEST of Iowa Excellence Award. BEST stands for Business Expansion and Strategic Trends and is a collaboration among local economic ...

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 ...

I remember my professor of economic history David S. Landes often talking about Joel Mokyr, who won the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this month. They must have been good friends. Professor Landes ...

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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 ...

Will the World’s Cheapest Solar Lantern Pull in Profits While Igniting Economic Development? When the sun goes down, much of the world goes dark. At-home productivity sinks--you can't read or learn ...