The town of Windsor Economic Development team recently received the Medium Community of the Year award for its excellent work in the “economic development of a community.” The Economic Development ...

A handful of environmentalists and community activists argued that a decades-long emphasis on heavy industry has placed a ...

The United Nations is quite proud of its Millennium Development Goals - the criteria it uses to measure the success of economic development programs. In a 2013 report, U.N. Secretary General Ban ...

The activities of economic development organizations (EDOs) pave the way for private businesses to start up or grow, ultimately increasing the tax base, providing good-paying jobs to residents, and ...

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 Master of Arts in Economic and Social Development of Regions allows students to focus their elective courses in a particular topic or policy area of personal or professional interest. Students are ...

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 ...

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 City of Lawrence has hired a Johnson County chamber of commerce executive, Susie Carson, to serve as its next director of ...