Growth & Development Starter Pack
All issues pertaining to economic growth and political economy in developing countries.
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@pseudoerasmus.bsky.social
@arvind2011.bsky.social
Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Chief Economic Adviser, Govt. of India
@deenamousa.com
Global health & development at Open Philanthropy https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/
@gandres.bsky.social
PhD in Economics | Researcher at University of Pisa | Affiliated Researcher at CIRCLE, Lund University | #Innovation #Networks #Sustainability
@oolsson.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and HoD at University of Gothenburg Economic growth, development economics and economic history. Author of "Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory” https://sites.google.com/site/econolaols/home
@maxposch.bsky.social
Assistant professor University of Exeter | Harvard affiliate | working on the social and cultural foundations of economic development | FirstGen
@danielavidart.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics @UConn. PhD from @UCSDEcon. Studying Macro, Labor, and Economic History. https://www.danielavidart.com
@rjuhasz.bsky.social
AP, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. Co-founder of The Industrial Policy Group. Mostly industrial policy and industrialization.
@andrewzeitlin.io
Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Development, labor, public, field experiments andrewzeitlin.io
@mattcollin.bsky.social
Development economist working at the EU Tax Observatory in Paris. Illicit finance, tax evasion, and foreign aid. Techno DJ when no one is looking. https://sites.google.com/view/mattcollin/home
@andrewmfischer.bsky.social
Prof at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Chair of Development and Change @devandchg.bsky.social, Canuck in Europe. Working on development economics, demography & social policy, Tibet & western China. Wrote Poverty as Ideology (2018) & other stuff.
@zainchaudhry.bsky.social
Economist @ DIME, World Bank. Behavioral and Development Economics. www.zainchaudhry.com
@tedmiguel.bsky.social
Economics Professor and Director Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California Berkeley (USA) http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu
@economeager.bsky.social
Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.
@ihsaanbassier.bsky.social
Lecturer (assistant prof) at Surrey University, also associate at CEP LSE and SALDRU UCT. Economist working on firm wage setting power, inequality and development. South African.
@adamposen.bsky.social
President, PIIE. Globalist. Former central banker. Political economy with a policy purpose. Writes on macroeconomic policy, G7/China relations, globalization, and economies of US, UK, Germany, Japan, and PRC.
@fschilbach.bsky.social
Behavioral and development economist at MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, mental health, and loneliness
@umitak.bsky.social
Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
@plvezina.bsky.social
Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
@khoavuumn.bsky.social
@dinapomeranz.bsky.social
Econ prof University of Zurich. Faculty affiliate at JPAL, CEPR, CESifo. Board member IIPF, Helvetas, GAIN. #EconSky
@ryancbriggs.net
Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
@aspaglayan.bsky.social
Prof. Paglayan at UCSanDiego; Non-Resident Fellow at CGDev. Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education." I write and teach about politics and education. https://www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-Education-Princeton-Economic/dp/069126127X/
@hlanthorn.bsky.social
she | @DukeGHI @innovationsinhc | Co-Lead: @clarityfndn | Ex: @IDinsight @ssrc.org @3ieNews @poverty_action | Affil: @DignityxProject
@jeffbloem.bsky.social
Research Fellow at @IFPRI.org. Development economist with research interests in agriculture, conflict, and psychology. Views are my own. Website: https://jeffbloem.com
@joshdeutschmann.bsky.social
Economist @Development Innovation Lab, UChicago. Opinions mine, etc. | Virginia Tech fan | Website: jwdeutschmann.com
@thorberger.bsky.social
Economic Historian. Pro Futura Scientia Fellow XVI at Swedish Collegium (Uppsala University), Associate Professor at Lund University, and Research Affiliate at the CEPR and IFN.
@leomarques.bsky.social
Professor of Colonial American History at Universidade Federal Fluminense. Author of The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Currently working on environmental histories of colonial capitalism.
@lashkaripour.bsky.social
Trade Economist | Associate Professor @ IU Econ | Penn State Econ Alumni | Trade Policy | Climate Policy | Industrial Policy | Quantitative Economics
@camerondcampbell.blog
Stratification, inequality, population, China, history https://camerondcampbell.blog ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-1941 Photos https://CamerondCampbell.smugmug.com https://www.instagram.com/cameron_d_campbell/
@raffasadun.bsky.social
Professor at Harvard Business School. Director of the NBER Organizational Economics working group. Co-Director of the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=541712
@lmonasterio.bsky.social
Brazilian Economist at @ipeaonline; professor at @SejaIDP; @CNPq_Oficial Opinions are solely mine (or stolen from others) https://sites.google.com/view/lmonasterio #econsky
@singhabhi.bsky.social
Development Economist in Stockholm. Mostly posts about India, education, miscellanea. #econsky
@pavisuri.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Government Department, LSE Indian politics, state capacity, status politics, historical political economy www.pavisuri.com Editor at http://broadstreet.blog
@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social
Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
@tradediversion.bsky.social
Economist at Columbia University. Trade Diversion is a blog about trade & globalization. www.tradediversion.net
@essobecker.bsky.social
Economist @MonashWarwick Project Leader @RF_Berlin BWV227 Editor @EJ_RES Associate Editor @QJEHarvard First gen high school grad Classical music and jazz enthusiast
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
@dariosidhu.bsky.social
Political science PhD @ UCLA, studying barriers to evidence-based policy. Previously @ Penn, BIT, Evidence Action, PIIE. 🇦🇹 🇨🇦 Website: www.dariosidhu.com
@owen.org
Economist. ex No10, Treasury, CGD, PxD. Former visiting Professor @ LSE. Development Drums podcast. Team GB triathlete age-grouper. Olympic volunteer. Feminist, internationalist. Set up the first UK Government website. Helped invent AMCs.
@jesshoel.bsky.social
Economist studying labor, gender, households, uncertainty, and the economics of small liberal arts colleges. I get to live in Colorado! https://www.jessicabhoel.com/ https://liberalartsledger.substack.com/
@franciscome.bsky.social
🇨🇴🇪🇸🇺🇸 • @realmadrid • immigrant • economista • cook • @EconomiaUAndes • @LSEEcon • @Georgetown • Spanglish
@umairjav.bsky.social
Interested in politics, development, informality, (mostly in) South Asia | Asst. Prof Sociology, LUMS | LFC +🇵🇰 cricket fan
@yuhuawang.bsky.social
Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
@nunopgpalma.bsky.social
Professor, University of Manchester. Fellow ICS-UL. Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. Economic History, Growth & Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/npgpalma/home
@gforguespuccio.bsky.social
🇧🇴🇬🇧 Economist | Growth & Development | Corruption | Inequality | AI | Financial Markets | posts my own | reposts ≠ endorsement Web: abertay.co/MGFj
@global-developments.org
Development economics and economic history. Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy. PhD Berkeley, AB Harvard. Views my own. Blog: www.global-developments.org Personal: www.oliverwkim.com
@rumikhan99.bsky.social
PhD student in Social Sciences at Caltech | Yenching '23 | Harvard '21 | Mainly Economic History
@esamjones.bsky.social
Development economist. UNU-WIDER Research Fellow based at Ministry of Economy and Finance, Mozambique. On leave from Uni. of Copenhagen.
@karthiktadepalli.bsky.social
econ phd @ Berkeley, contractor @ GiveWell. market access rules everything around me. former homes: Philadelphia, Bangalore.
@nicolillo.bsky.social
Economista, actualmente en el Ministerio de Economía de Chile 🇨🇱. Economist, currently at the Ministry of Economics of Chile 🇨🇱 Views my own, etc.
@jonathanconning.bsky.social
Political Economy, Property Rights + Contracts, Development and Applied Micro Economist at @Hunter_College and @GC_CUNY.
@mjdcurtis.bsky.social
Economic historian, AP at University of Southern Denmark. I work with big data from parish records and genealogies. Interested in historical demography, social mobility, and human capital.
@tomraster.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at LSE @lseechist.bsky.social Economic history, trade, spatial, forced labor, migration.
@joshbudlender.bsky.social
Postdoc at SALDRU, University of Cape Town: Labour & Development Economics. Firms and wages and structural transformation; programme evaluation; a bit of econ history & social policy. And some 🇿🇦 politics :) https://www.joshbudlender.co.za
@juanjimenez.bsky.social
Sociólogo. Actualmente Profesor Universidad Autónoma de Chile. En un peregrino esfuerzo por una 'Historia de las Formas Institucionales' (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343470554_Esbozo_de_historia_global_de_las_formas_institucionales).
@nicvdsijpe.bsky.social
Empirical economist @ Sheffield. Working on/recently worked on: (anticipated) discrimination, IV, development finance institutions, foreign aid. https://sites.google.com/site/nicolasvandesijpe/research Widowed dad of 2.
@alexandermlee.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science. South Asia, Historical Political Economy, blueberries.
@kevanharris.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists
@bijurao.bsky.social
World Bank-Development Research Group(personal account). CIFAR, @cgdev.org. Economist who mixes disciplines and methods. Hindustani music. https://www.vijayendrarao.org/
@tamboduc.bsky.social
Economic historian. Sustainable Development, Natural Resources and Energy Transition. #R and #Gretl my tools and video games.
@rpcolistete.bsky.social
História Econômica/Economic History, University of São Paulo - USP. Personal site: https://t.co/dCPXx9tJbs; open data: http://osf.io/zuat2/
@panarat.bsky.social
Lecturer at Thammasat University, Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Economic history, gender equality, dogs (she/her)
@descamillag.bsky.social
AP @econstandrews, economic history, labor, and development. ResAff @iza_bonn & @OxfordESH https://www.escamilla-guerrero.com/
@alexanderdonges.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim, Department of Economics. Research: Economic History, Innovation & Patents. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/alexanderdonges
@guoxu.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at @BerkeleyHaas | Political Economy, Econ History, Organizations www.guoxu.org
@usama-polani.bsky.social
In Econ grad school purgatory. When I’m not reading macro and metrics papers I like watching tennis.
@michelag.bsky.social
Associate Professor @UCLA Econ; Affiliated with @nberpubs; @cepr_org; @iza; and @cesifogroup. @Stanford PhD. Working on productivity, innovation and copyright.
@politicory.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. All about the long run and development #EconSky www.corybsmith.com
@tonysangle.bsky.social
Non-Resident Research Fellow & former Chief Economist UNU-WIDER Helsinki. 🇺🇳🇫🇮Former Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.🇩🇰Also Manchester & Warwick universities 🇬🇧 https://www.wider.unu.edu/expert/tony-addison-0
@paddycarter.bsky.social
Head of development economics at British International Investment, formerly CGD, ODI, lapsed academic economist and macroeconomics hobbyist. https://sites.google.com/site/paddycarter/
@ashisharora.bsky.social
economics, innovation, and random stuff https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora
@saralowes.bsky.social
UCSDEcon | Ph.D. Harvard | Development, culture, political economy, and economic history
@scepticalranil.bsky.social
I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that. "Office-talking monster" - my 4 year old. Deputy Chief Economist (FCDO), DPhil (BSG).
@mgf91.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UMassEcon. Economista: FE-UNAM @CEEColmex & @GC_CUNY. Inherited inequalities and intergenerational mobility. Necaxista aunque ganen. Se habla español.
@joefrancis.bsky.social
Economic historian, writing a book on Argentina and another on slavery in the United States. Confined to a hill in Wales. https://thepoorrichworld.substack.com
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics and International Development at McGill. Firms, labor, and industrial development. Co-Founder and Co-Director of http://mont2-econlab.com. Father of two 🇮🇹🇨🇦 girls. Personal: https://sites.google.com/site/fscoamodio
@ryanbedwards.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the ANU's Development Policy Centre and part of the economics faculty at the Crawford School | Research on development, labor, trade, and the environment | Personal account, usual disclaimers www.ryanbedwards.com
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social
Fellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better and The Plague Cycle. (CGD doesn't have institutional positions, so don't blame it for mine).
@milanv.bsky.social
Senior Fellow + Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the "Grand Tamasha" podcast (grandtamasha.com). https://milanvaishnav.substack.com/
@chris-meissner.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis. Globalization since 1800, financial crises since 1800, other Cliometric-type research https://sites.google.com/site/chrismmeissner/home
@adasgupta.bsky.social
Political scientist at UC-Merced working on topics in political economy/development/econ history. Run the Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Societies (PEARS) lab. https://aditya-dasgupta.com
@tomwestland.bsky.social
it is a lovely morning in the village, and i am a horrible goose economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation (he/him) tomwestland.com
@saadgulzar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Princeton. Study representation, development, and the environment with a focus on South Asia. http://saadgulzar.com/
@nathannunn.bsky.social
Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. 🇰🇷🇨🇦
@johannesmboehm.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute & CEPR. Growth, Trade, Productivity, Organization, Environment, South Asia. https://jmboehm.github.io/
@dietzvollrath.bsky.social
Economic growth guy. Prof at U of Houston. Currently department chair, and have managed to not murder anyone yet. Please clap.
@basilhalperin.com
Postdoc @ Stanford Digital Economy Lab. AP @ UVA from fall 2025 basilhalperin.com
@kopalo.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Georgetown University. Washington, DC. More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
@douglasirwin.bsky.social
Trade/economic history @Dartmouth College @Peterson Institute for International Economics Website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dirwin/
@woessmann.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, University of Munich Director, ifo Center for the Economics of Education https://sites.google.com/view/woessmann-e
@ajayverghese.bsky.social
Political scientist at Middlebury College: India, religion (Hinduism), ethnic violence, history, and qualitative/mixed methods. Dad.
@leightjessica.bsky.social
Development economist, @Yale / @UniofOxford / @MIT. Asso editor, REHO + CER. Editorial board member, BMC Public Health + PloS One. Structural transformation, agriculture, gender, IPV. Views my own
@ericverhoogen.bsky.social
Economist at Columbia (Econ & SIPA), studying firms & development. http://www.columbia.edu/~ev2124/
@dlc.bsky.social
Parrotologist, economist, ceramicist, swim fanatic, AI adopter, Ukrainian Canadian
@chrisblattman.bsky.social
Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263