About

In Development is a new magazine dedicated to exploring how progress actually happens in the developing world. We publish narrative-driven essays on ideas, policies, and technologies that have the possibility to, or are already, improving global well-being.

Much of global development journalism focuses on crisis response: famine, war, or disaster. The rest often consists of technical writing for experts. We want something different: to explore how the world changes. We’re interested in stories that are intellectually serious, empirically grounded, and a pleasure to read - pieces that a policymaker in Nairobi, a donor in New York, or a grad student in Delhi could all find illuminating.

Our mission is to expand the conversation about development. We take a “yes, and” approach to development - we think NGOs and aid are a key part of the picture, but so are governments, entrepreneurship, infrastructure, innovation, and institutional reform.

Team

The editorial team for In Development is Lauren Gilbert (editor-in-chief), Chinmay Ingalagavi (contributing editor) and Jake Eaton (contributing editor).

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