Why do some countries’ economies grow faster?
One of the Media Lab’s newest faculty members is adapting the mathematical tools of statistical physics to study development economics.
Tracing families’ escape from poverty
Economist’s study shows how the poor in developing countries become wealthier.
Tech support?
Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.
Jodie Wu ’09 and Jamie Yang PhD ’08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green Fellows
Chosen from a pool of 1,000 applicants from 73 countries
Haiti’s plight
MIT anthropologist Erica James examines the psychological damage inflicted on the island nation’s inhabitants.
Time names Amy Smith among ‘world’s most influential people’
Founder of D-Lab cited among top 'thinkers'
The deep roots of inequality
MIT economics student’s study of Peru shows how practices from hundreds of years ago can influence prosperity today. ‘Pathbreaking,’ says a Harvard economist.