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Agricultural economics

Another contributor, 1979 Nobel Economics Prize winner Theodore Schultz was among the first to examine development economics as a problem related directly to agriculture.


see also

Adriana Kugler

The Effect of Structural Reforms on Productivity and Profitability Enhancing Reallocation: Evidence from Colombia (with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler), Journal of Development Economics, December 2004, 75(2).

Ahmed Benchemsi

He later received an M.A in Development Economics from the Sorbonne, and an MPhil in Political Science from Paris’ Institut d’Etudes Politiques, aka Sciences Po.

Alan Whiteside

Whiteside obtained a BA (Hons) degree in 1978, and an MA (Development Economics) in 1980, from the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Income inequality metrics

In their study for the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Julius Court (2001) reach slightly different conclusions.

Jeni Klugman

She studied at the Australian National University (Phd Economics), Oxford University (MSc Development Economics and a graduate law degree).

Maastricht Graduate School of Governance

Wim Naudé - Professor of Development Economics and Entrepreneurship

Murat Karayalçın

Karayalçın was educated at Ankara University and at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a Masters degree in Development Economics.

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Considered as Asia's LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science), the elite school is focused on policy studies and research on a diverse range of social disciplines from local governance to development economics.

Rosebud Kurwijila

She holds a Bachelors degree in Agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania (1976), Master degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of London (1983) as well as a Master of Philosophy in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia (UK) (1994).

Ugo Panizza

Panizza is known for co-establishing the concept of original sin in development economics, alongside economists Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann.

World Bank Chief Economist

The World Bank Chief Economist (full title: Senior Vice President, Development Economics, and Chief Economist) provides intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels.

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David C. Edmonds is a former Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, a former Fulbright-Hayes professor and specialist in international and development economics, holds a Ph.D. degree from the American University of Washington, D.C. and has attended The University of Southern Mississippi, University of Notre Dame and Louisiana State University.