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 ...

Job growth and community development are big goals all over the area, and those topics were among many discussed by business leaders in Mason City on Tuesday.

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 ...

America’s refrigerant industry, backed by the AIM Act, is driving innovation and job growth while reducing costs and boosting US competitiveness in advanced cooling technologies. The American air ...

Located within the Development Economics Vice Presidency, the Development Research Group is the World Bank's principal research department. With its cross-cutting expertise on a broad range of topics ...

Urban economic development and innovation are increasingly central to understanding how cities evolve as hubs of technological advancement, productivity and social progress. Recent developments have ...

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 ...

Fields: Development Labor Gender economics Email: [[ajstocker]] Office: Chancellors 337 Abby Stocker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from ...