Ekonomi pembangunan adalah cabang ekonomi yang mempelajari aspek-aspek ekonomi dalam proses pembangunan di negara berkembang. Selain berfokus pada metode pembangunan ekonomi, pertumbuhan ekonomi, dan perubahan sosial, ekonomi pembangunan juga memperluas kesempatan bagi penduduk dengan mendukung perbaikan kondisi kesehatan, pendidikan, dan tempat kerja melalui sektor publik atau swasta.[1]
Ekonomi pembangunan mencakup perumusan teori dan metode yang menentukan kebijakan dan praktik dan dapat diterapkan di tingkat domestik maupun internasional.[2] Contohnya adalah restukturisasi insentif pasar atau penggunaan matematika dalam analisis proyek (misalnya optimisasi inter-temporal), atau perpaduan metode kuantitatif dan kualitatif.[3]
Berbeda dengan bidang ekonomi lainnya, pendekatan ekonomi pembangunan mempertimbangkan faktor-faktor sosial dan politik dalam pembuatan rencana tertentu.[4] Selain itu, tidak ada kepastian soal isu yang perlu dipelajari dalam ekonomi pembangunan.[5] Berbagai pendekatan mempertimbangkan faktor yang mendorong konvergensi atau non-konvergensi ekonomi di tingkat rumah tangga, provinsi, dan negara.[6]
- Daron Acemoğlu, dosen ekonomi di Institut Teknologi Massachusetts dan pemenang Clark Medal tahun 2005.
- Philippe Aghion, dosen ekonomi di Universitas Harvard, penulis buku tentang pertumbuhan ekonomi, pengusung pertumbuhan Schumpeter, dan perancang teori kehancuran kreatif secara matematis bersama Peter Howitt.
- Abhijit Banerjee, dosen ekonomi di Institut Teknologi Massachusetts dan direktur Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
- Pranab Bardhan, dosen ekonomi di Universitas California, Berkeley, penulis buku tentang perdagangan dan ekonomi pembangunan, dan penyunting Journal of Development Economics tahun 1985–2003.
- Kaushik Basu, dosen ekonomi di Universitas Cornell University dan penulis Analytical Development Economics.
- Peter Thomas Bauer, dosen ekonomi di London School of Economics dan penulis Dissent on Development.
- Jagdish Bhagwati, pengamat perdagangan internasional dan pendukung perdagangan bebas
- David E. Bloom
- Ha-Joon Chang, penulis Kicking Away the Ladder dan Bad Samaritans; Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World yang menggunakan bukti sejarah untuk mengkritik ekonomi pembangunan neoliberal.
- Paul Collier, penulis The Bottom Billion yang mengumpulkan berbagai jebakan untuk menjelaskan asal usul kemiskinan di masyarakat kalangan bawah.
- Esther Duflo, direktur Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, dosen ekonomi di Institut Teknologi Massachusetts, MacArthur Fellow 2009, pemenang Clark Medal 2010, dan pendukung eksperimen lapangan.
- William Easterly, penulis The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics dan White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- Celso Furtado, ekonom strukturalis Brasil.
- Oded Galor, ekonom Israel-Amerika di Universitas Brown, pemimpin redaksi Journal of Economic Growth, dan perancang teori pertumbuhan terpadu.
- Peter Howitt, ekonom Kanada di Universitas Brown, mantan presiden Canadian Economics Association, pengusung konsep pertumbuhan Schumpeter dan merancang teori kehancuran kreatif secara matematis bersama Philippe Aghion.
- Justin Yifu Lin, ekonom Cina di Universitas Peking, mantan kepala ekonom Bank Dunia, dan salah satu ekonom paling berpengaruh di Cina.
- W. Arthur Lewis dan T. W. Schultz, pemenang Hadiah Nobel Ekonomi tahun 1979 atas karyanya di bidang ekonomi pembangunan.
- Dambisa Moyo, ekonom Zambia yang mempelajari ekonomi makro, dampak bantuan luar negeri, dan hubungan internasional, sekaligus penulis Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa
- Raúl Prebisch, Sekretaris Jenderal Konferensi Perdagangan dan Pembangunan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa pertama dan teoriwan dependensi berpengaruh.
- Lant Pritchett, dosen di Kennedy School of Government, Universitas Harvard, dan telah memegang beberapa jabatan penelitian penting di Bank Dunia.
- Dani Rodrik, dosen di Kennedy School of Government, Universitas Harvard, dan penulis buku tentang globalisasi.
- Mark Rosenzweig, dosen di Universitas Yale dan direktur Economic Growth Center di Yale.
- Walt Whitman Rostow, teoriwan modernisasi dan penulis The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-communist Manifesto
- Jeffrey Sachs, penulis The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time dan Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
- Amartya Sen, ekonom India, pemenang Hadiah Nobel, dan penulis Development as Freedom.
- Hans Singer, penulis tesis yang menjadi dasar teori ketergantungan
- Hernando de Soto Polar, pendukung hak properti di negara berkembang dan penulis The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- Frances Stewart, presiden Human Development and Capability Association.
- Joseph Stiglitz, pemenang Hadiah Nobel dan mantan kepala ekonom Bank Dunia.
- Finn Tarp, dosen ekonomi pembangunan di Universitas Kopenhagen dan direktur UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finlandia.
- Erik Thorbecke, perintis Foster-Greer-Thorbecke yang berperan penting dalam pengembangan Social Accounting Matrix.
- Michael Todaro, perancang model Todaro dan model Harris-Todaro yang mempelajari migrasi dan urbanisasi.
- Robert M. Townsend, dosen Institut Teknologi Massachusetts yang dikenal sebagai perintis Thai Project, model proyek terapan dan teoretis dalam pembangunan ekonomi.
- Mahbub ul Haq, ekonom Pakistan, perintis Human Development Report
- Muhammad Yunus, pemenang Hadiah Nobel dan pendiri Grameen Bank
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