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James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

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None of the countries that actually developed did it without planning; social policies are as integral to strategies of economic development as purely economic policies explains C.P. Chandrasekhar at ...

Economists have developed three competing explanations or theories to explain differences in economic growth between regions. Over the past several decades, economic development policy in Indiana has ...

The Journal of Modern African Studies offers a quarterly survey of developments in modern African politics and society. Its main emphasis is on current issues in African politics, economies, societies ...

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 ...