… phone data can make poverty targeting faster and more cost-effective, traditional survey-based methods remain more … that nearly a quarter of poverty-targeted programmes in low-income countries are regressive, providing more benefits … personal mobile phones. Amongst adults who do not, 30-50% use someone else’s (World Bank 2025). Researchers have begun …

… long term. A lot of the western world has developed over time, so we should be able to learn something from that by … rounds. We’re talking about 8,000 households — urban and rural. It has no specific focus but is intended to get as … being done in the field. They can get field experience and use the data. The data is proprietary for two years, and then …

… pilot market has led similar programs to expand across India, demonstrating the global potential of market-based … significantly increases consumer welfare gains and time savings. However, they found that EV market shares are … groundwater. Now, they are scaling the project up and measuring impact, pointing out that finding sustainable …

… of Bombay opened a new path for research on development in India … December 11, 2025 | EGC History How a 1950s and 60s … from the university. Ford also provided Hansen with the use of an automobile, a Hindustan Landmaster that would be … S. A. Dave, a Bombay economics graduate student at the time who became the first chair of the Securities and …

… 2018.    A majority of surveyed households in Kerala still use multiple types of cookstoves, a phenomenon known as … relatively high levels of clean fuel use. About one in two rural households (51%) in Kerala use clean cooking fuels, … smoke emitted and inhaled, and, ideally, less resources (time and/or money) spent cooking and procuring charcoal, …

… Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women? by Giorgia Barboni, Natalia Rigol, Simone … shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, …

… services have been found to improve the functioning of rural markets, boost educational outcomes, and even reduce … women, particularly for women in South Asian countries. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh continue to have … who report having access to a phone must borrow one to use one, as compared to only 16 percent of men. This gap is …

… within the broader field, and how has it evolved over time? Alejandro Martinez-Marquina: Economics started with the … Experiments are just one of the many methods you can use to answer economic questions. But if you're interested in … lot of potential answers, then come up with a very elegant design to identify the one thing that affects behavior. In …

… by  Evidence for Policy Design , December 22, 2017. In India, only 33 percent of women use mobile phones as against 67 percent of men. This is a … – cited across the country and particularly strong in rural areas – was reputational concerns: girls’ use of phones …

… and engagement. One might ask, in a world of limited time and resources, why should closing yet another gender gap … with 125 men and women across five sites in urban and rural India. We found that women are often only able to own a … to wait for her husband to go to sleep so that she could use the phone, which her husband keeps with him during the …

… Pande and coauthors: Using technology to save lives during India's monsoon season … July 2, 2020 | Perspectives Pande … to include in flood alerts. A majority responded with the time when flood waters will reach the village and the … water depth and flood timing in warnings. 3. Poor, rural communities generally rely on village networks and …

…   Follow-Up: A New Ending in Tale of Young Woman From Rural India … December 8, 2016 | News Follow-Up: A New Ending in … on Hongasandra Main Road: the crowd of peddlers and small-time godmen, cows nosing through piles of trash, factory …