Economists writing from the late twentieth century on the causes of poverty, policy and growth in developing countries. An economist belongs here when the cited article describes the person as a development economist of the present era. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Contemporary Development Economists, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field. Each entry in the group links to its own article with its sources and related entries.
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Wikipedia: Kaushik Basu
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Kaushik Basu (born 9 January 1952) is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2009 to 2012.
Wikipedia: Ha-Joon Chang
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Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990-2021 before becoming professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2022.
Wikipedia: Esther Duflo
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Esther Caroline Duflo, FBA (French: [ɛstɛʁ dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Wikipedia: Justin Yifu Lin
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He founded the China Center for Economic Research (currently the Peking University National School of Development) and was later appointed Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank where he served from 2008 to 2012.
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