Gig or sharing economy platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Grubhub and Taskrabbit are rapidly redefining the meaning of work, innovation and prosperity in post-industrial capitalist economies. How has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...

The typical four-year outline for Michigan Tech's Economics bachelor's degree provides a semester-by-semester guide to core courses, labs, and requirements. An introduction to economics. The ...

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 concept of the middle‐income trap (MIT) continues to pose significant challenges for countries undergoing rapid industrialisation and economic reform. This phenomenon refers to the stage where ...

It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.

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 ...