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Harun Onder

Harun Onder is the Howard G. Buffett Endowed Chair on Conflict and Development in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of the Program on Conflict and Development and the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the Development Front. Before joining Texas A&M University, he was the Deputy Chief Economist for the Middle East and Africa Region at the World Bank, where he led large budget support operations in East Africa and strategic technical assistance programs on the economic impact analysis of conflicts and programming post-conflict recovery.

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Development Front and a Job Undone

For scholars and practitioners of the international economy, conflict and underdevelopment are two increasingly intertwined phenomena. Concerned about low-income countries? Two-thirds of them now fall...

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On space barons and global poverty

On July 21, 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocketed about 65 miles above the Earth’s crust. Another billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, did the same nine days...

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Dutch disease: An economic illness easy to catch, difficult to cure

What a persistently low oil price does to oil-rich countries is like what a long, cold winter does to people. It makes many of them...

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Trade wars and trade laws

Trade policy has recently been rediscovered as a foreign policy instrument that can, at least in theory, deliver non-trade results. Tariffs and sanctions are increasingly...

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Development Front is supported by the Conflict and Development Program at Texas A&M University.