Development Economics X Corporation

The next generation of development economics.
Built for impact at scale.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development Economics X is research on global inequalities in the present and in history with the future of development economics. Featuring .@KwekuOA

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

It's critical to build food systems that sustainably work for households and businesses alike.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Food security is about more than producing enough food.

It's ensuring nutritious food is affordable, accessible and reliably supplied, people are healthy, and supplying businesses are thriving.

We're building the economics of better food systems, starting in North Berkeley.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Industrial development goes beyond building factories.

It's accumulating capabilities: what firms can produce, what technologies they can master, how organisations learn, where capital flows and how entire industries evolve.

Transcend growth. Creating productive capacity now.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

At @DevEconX, we think seriously about how economies actually become productive, and actually make it happen.

It's time for organizations to sustainably and reliably become more capable, for industries to emerge, and for developing countries to organically move into increasingly sophisticated forms of production and compete globally.

It's time.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

It's critical to understand how productive capabilities accumulate.

Why do some firms become globally competitive? How do entirely new industries emerge? How do economies move from producing simple goods to increasingly complex ones?

It's time to make it happen.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

The objective should not simply be to help all economies grow within their existing economic structures.

It should also be to understand how those structures can be transformed: what new firms, industries, technologies and productive capabilities can be developed, and under what conditions.

It's time for more.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development economics asks why some economies grow faster than others.

What the world wants is for their economies to develop the productive capabilities, sophisticated firms, and institutions that make sustained transformation a reality.

Industrial Development Economics.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development economics that places the transformation of productive economies at the center.

We're connecting behaviour, change, capabilities, decisions and structural transformation.

Not just explaining economic development.

Accelerating it.

Industrial Development Economics.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Industrial development goes beyond building factories.

It's accumulating capabilities: what firms can produce, what technologies they can master, how organisations learn, where capital flows and how entire industries evolve.

Transcend growth. Creating productive capacity now.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development economics asks why some economies grow faster than others.

What the world wants is for their economies to develop the productive capabilities, sophisticated firms, and institutions that make sustained transformation a reality.

Industrial Development Economics.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Explore the future.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

New sources of finance, private-sector experimentation, and regional institutions arereshaping how evidence is produced and how development is pursued.

Explore the future of the field, and a broader architecture of evidence. https://t.co/21dl3ezWcn

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

New sources of finance, private-sector experimentation, and regional institutions arereshaping how evidence is produced and how development is pursued.

Explore the future of the field, and a broader architecture of evidence. https://t.co/21dl3ezWcn

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

It's a new era.

It's not about economists as individuals. It never really was. It's about economic problems being solved, not just understood. How that happens is increasingly beside the point.

AI and other technologies will transform economic research. But the challenges facing developing countries aren't merely computational. They involve infrastructure, institutions, capital, production and implementation.

Development economics won't simply be displaced by technology. Its future, like that of computer science and mathematics before it, will increasingly be industrial in scope.

Academic economics isn't going anywhere. Cooking at home and eating at restaurants can coexist. So can academic and industrial research. And they will.

Part of what made economists like Milton Friedman influential was that their ideas were useful beyond a university. Of course, his communication skills, institutional networks, public visibility and intellectual contributions also mattered. But even he would probably approach things rather differently today.

The profession has an extraordinary opportunity ahead. It's a remarkable time to be an economist, even if the profession will never look quite the same.

It's time to join the adventure.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Follow @DevEconX @DevEconXGhana @mlxdoing

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

When I was lecturing at UC Berkeley a Korean student of mine told me about this Ghanaian young man.

Sam Okyere apparently went to Korea on a computer science scholarship and somehow ended up becoming an award-winning TV personality and celebrity there.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Making development dreams come true.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development Dreams.

Evidence tells us what works.
But transforming economies requires more: investment impact, productive firms, infrastructure, industrial capabilities and the ability to scale.

The next frontier is connecting what we know to what we build with @DevEconX.

[Development Economics X Corporation @DevEconX]

Development Dreams.

Evidence tells us what works.
But transforming economies requires more: investment impact, productive firms, infrastructure, industrial capabilities and the ability to scale.

The next frontier is connecting what we know to what we build with @DevEconX.

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Yes. Faster and better clinical trials are critical.