Development Economics: Micro vs Macro

Development economics explained simply: what's the difference between the macro and micro sides of the field?

Development economics sounds like a topic for "somewhere else." It's not.

In my latest Decode Econ conversation, I sat down with two economists who study the same big question — how economies, and the people inside them, actually develop — from completely different altitudes. Dr. Amrita Dhar tracks capital flows into emerging markets and, closer to home, how U.S. states split the bill for K-12 schools. Dr. Shreyasee Das studies what happens inside a household in rural India after…