This paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke's journey through the history of development economics between the 1950s and the present. The paper consists of four parts. First, an introduction reviews briefly his professional career as a development economist and his...

"Islamic Finance as a Complex System is a unique collection that provides theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance. The contributors are theorists and practitioners from prominent institutions, including the world's biggest Islamic and non-Islamic financial institutions,...

We build a CGE model of an archetype African economy to simulate the welfare effects of trade liberalization specifically on poverty. The economy is modeled following a dual-dual framework (Thorbecke, 1993, 1994, 1997) that is characteristic of the structure of a developing country in its middle...