The ''Journal of Development Economics'' is a bimonthly

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published by

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. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics. Its

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from 1985 to 2003 was

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, who has been the longest-serving JDE editor to date. He followed

T.N. Srinivasan T. N. Srinivasan, in full Thirukodikaval Nilakanta Srinivasan (27 March 1933 – 11 November 2018), was an Indian economist who had taught and worked in the United States. He was the Professor#Retired faculty 2, Emeritus Samuel C. Park, Jr. Prof ...

, and Lance Taylor as Editors since the journal was established in 1974. He was succeeded by

Mark Rosenzweig Mark Rosenzweig may refer to: * Mark Rosenzweig (economist), development economist at Yale University * Mark Rosenzweig (psychologist) Mark Richard Rosenzweig (September 12, 1922 – July 20, 2009) was an American research psychologist whose ...

(2003-2009) and Maitreesh Ghatak (2009-2015). The current editor-in-chief is Andrew Foster, who started in 2016.

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