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 ...

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 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 ...

The Lead Off Michigan has committed roughly $6 billion toward business growth and economic development projects since 2022.