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 ...

The Data, Economics, and Design of Policy concentration helps you develop the competencies and theoretical knowledge needed to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing developing countries ...

Learn how to connect research to real-world trends. Our M.S. in Applied Economics program prepares you to evaluate policies and programs, develop forecasts, better understand consumer behavior, and ...

Kari Polanyi Levitt is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, and was the George Beckford Professor of Political Economy at the University of the West Indies, Mona from 1995 to ...

Our program has a long-standing reputation in applied microeconomics, particularly in the areas of environmental and natural resource economics, industrial organization, and trade and development ...

Central to DECDP's mandate is the effective dissemination of new research findings. It oversees the Policy Research Working Papers series, fostering innovative economic analysis; as well as ...