The Journal of Economic Development (JED) promotes and encourages research that aims at economic development and growth by publishing papers of great scholarly merit on a wide range of topics and employing a wide range of approaches. JED welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers in the fields of economic development, economic growth, international trade and finance, labor economics, IO, social choice, and political economics. JED also invites the economic analysis on the experiences of economic development in various dimensions from all the countries of the globe.