Jeffrey Sachs, the eminent development economist at Columbia University, takes FORBES to task ( click here for more).
His role in the Vietnam conflict, he said, was as a development economist.
Ironically, a study by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development economist Joseph DiMasi and Duke University professor Henry Grabowski found that between 1990 and 2005, 47% of oncology drugs received accelerated approval compared with 13% for all other drug classes.
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Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
It also spanned the development of The Economist from a small, influential but somewhat esoteric publication to a much larger, more commercially conscious undertaking.
"We have achieved political democracy but not yet economic democracy for all, " says Mthuli Ncube, the African Development Bank's chief economist and a native South African.
Mr. JONATHAN PINCUS (Senior Country Economist, United Nations Development Program, Hanoi): Vietnam is having a very difficult year.
Yet Vishwanath Desai, a senior economist with the Asian Development Bank, argues that Thailand's troubles are distinct in three ways.
Economist John Simpson watched the development of the enterprise zones in Belfast and Derry in the 1980s and has analysed their impact.
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Jonathan Pincus, a senior country economist for the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam, says that the real estate boom is largely speculation from people with excess cash.
Ricardo Hausmann, chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, wants international institutions to promote this market by offering countries such liquidity lines jointly with commercial banks.
Societe General Asset Management senior economist Akio Yoshino said the new development "casts uncertainty over the prospects for the investment stance of foreign investors who had already turned active sellers".
"The government should avoid moral hazard, " says Kim Joon Kyung, senior economist at the state-funded Korea Development Institute.
"It's a call to say 'look, please invest in Africa, there are good returns, ' " says Mthuli Ncube, chief economist and vice president of the African Development Bank.
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Willem Buiter, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, thinks some would do better to adopt the euro unilaterally.
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Mr Stern had been chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, after running an institute at the London School of Economics.
He had previously served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee between 1997 and 2000 and as chief economist for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.
On the other hand, says Willem Buiter, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, capital flows into these economies as they adopt the euro might increase inflationary pressures pushing inflation above the Maastricht targets.
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Annual wage growth will be slow in the first half of the coming decade and will then pick up to 3% in the latter years, according to John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Alaska's unemployment rate is high, in large part due to significantly higher seasonal employment than any other state, according to Dan Robinson, an economist with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
But the potato's unusual history (see article) means it is well worth celebrating by readers of The Economist because the potato is intertwined with economic development, trade liberalisation and globalisation.
Previous governments have fitfully undertaken titling programmes, inspired by Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian economist who argues that enforceable property rights are the key to development.
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James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global development, economic, technology, and tax issues.
The economist Joseph Schumpeter cautioned his readers not to expect new forms of economic development to announce themselves with a grand flourish.
The new head of the Central Bank, Luis Diego Castellanos, an obscure elderly economist, is a close colleague of Jorge Giordani, the old-fashioned development planner who leads the economic team.
The idea of long periods of economical and technological development, spanning 40-50 years, goes back to Nicolai Kondratieff, a Russian economist, who first published the idea of long waves in 1925.
"The problems have been focused particularly on the construction and land development loans, and that's not a surprise, " says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.
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