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Development Economics Virtual Issue

“At its most basic level, economic development is the process through which a community creates material wealth and uses it to improve the well-being of its members” – Marcelo M. Giugale, Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know

In the 2015 edition of the Global Monitoring Report the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimated that 9.6% of the world’s population was living on $1.90 or less a day.  When compared to the 2012 projection of 12.8%, there is a degree of optimism among some development economists that this generation can end extreme poverty.  This online collection of articles, books and reference works seeks to reflect the latest research and policy within the broad field of development economics in an effort to further the understanding of this collective goal of poverty eradication and more fully comprehend the complexity of the problems and potential solutions faced by the developing world.  The selections below touch upon the themes of agriculture, education, healthcare, finance, labour, gender, the role of government and more from a varied range of geographies and perspectives. 

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Oxford Handbooks Online

Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development

Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Economic Development and Growth

African Growth Strategies: The Past, Present, and Future

Finance and Economic Development: The Role of Government

Legal Institutions and Economic Development

Battles Half Won: Political Economy of India's Growth and Economic Policy Since Independence

Shifting Paradigms in Latin America's Economic Development

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