According to Ross, the core of China's scientific and technological achievements lies in the high proportion of R&D investment and high conversion efficiency of this into products. High-level R&D ...

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 ...

Birth rates are falling in the world's highly developed countries. In the 20th century, fertility decline has been associated with advancements in economic and human development, leading to the widely ...

FREETOWN, March 25, 2024 – Sierra Leone has made commendable strides in improving human capital development with the government demonstrating a strong commitment to enhancing the well-being and ...

Uzbekistan has officially launched its updated “Uzbekistan–2030” Strategy, a comprehensive national development roadmap aimed ...

John Maynard Keynes, memorializing the death of his mentor Alfred Marshall a century ago, wrote that the “master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts…. He must be mathematician, ...

Steven Pinker on human development, economics, academic freedom Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, discusses driving social, political, and economic progress, promoting academic freedom, and ...

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 ...

In this week’s episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, I speak with Megan Carpenter, who just recently stepped down as Dean of UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law after more than eight years. Our conversation ...