Mathematics education in India must stay strongly focused on areas that directly contribute to employability, research ...

The revision of the national curriculum for basic, senior secondary and technical education is long overdue. I have always ...

Joseph Henrich, 57, a professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, said, “During the Roman Republic, low birth rates emerged as male elites avoided marriage, but ...

Changes to jump start private sector development have supporters and critics, but policy-makers believe the current approach ...

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

This project addresses the slowdown in US economic growth since 2000 by focusing on how microeconomic policy changes can spur growth. Recognizing that many growth-related policy levers are ...

In addition to working papers, the NBER disseminates affiliates’ latest findings through a range of free periodicals — the NBER Reporter, the NBER Digest, the Bulletin on Health, and the Bulletin on ...

Happiness is an electrifying and elusive state. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and even economists have long sought to define it. And since the 1990s, a whole branch of psychology—positive ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development under Secretary Dr. Basil Gooden today announced that USDA is accepting applications to promote economic development and create jobs for people in ...