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    Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures
    … Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures … July 23, 2020 | News Expanding the scope … by giving them access to price-stabilized rations, and data from the Chhattisgarh PDS survey suggest that this may …
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    Photo of two women carrying baskets on their heads walking on the street. Joseph Kiesecker
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    Measuring local governance capacity in Nepal
    … budgeting capacities. In the context of crises like the Covid-19 pandemic and accelerating climate breakdown, a responsive … phone surveys with government officials, and analyzed this data in connection with administrative data on citizens’ …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #6: Gender and Structural Transformation
    … Structural Change and the Decline of Women’s Work in India Peters, Torola, Uniat & Zilibotti [ Working Paper ] … Force Participation and Urbanization, 1987-2019 Notes: Data Source: National Sample Surveys & Periodic Labor Force … Pande on Gender & Economic Growth [ EGC Article, November 19, 2024 ] In the first installment of EGC’s “In …
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    To train 10 lakh Indians a week, the Skill India initiative needs a wider net
    … 24, 2015.   To train 10 lakh Indians a week, the Skill India initiative needs a wider net … December 24, 2015 | News … are reached? We analyzed 2011-2012 National Sample Survey data, and combined our analysis with insights gleaned from … in South Asia Perspectives How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House News Vocational …
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    Women in sitting on floor of a laundry facility. Anindito Mukherjee, Reuters
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    5 Key Lessons About Women And Work In India
    … 5 Key Lessons About Women And Work In India … March 7, 2016 | In the News 5 Key Lessons About Women … 1. Women want to work.  National Sample Survey (NSS) data show that 31% of women who spend the majority of their … employ the most women outside of agriculture. 4. Current initiatives such as Skill India, Make in India, and new …
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    George Taylor
    … Flood Alerts early warning system intervention in Bihar, India. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from the … Flood Alerts early warning system intervention in Bihar, India. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from the … Flood Alerts early warning system intervention in Bihar, India. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from the …
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    George Taylor
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    Getting India's Women into the Workforce: A Smart Approach
    … Getting India's Women into the Workforce: A Smart Approach … March … it has in other countries (Heath and Jayachandran 2016). Initiatives such as 'Skill India' and 'Make in India' include … and policy actors from across South Asia in Kathmandu, Nepal, to share research on how government initiatives to …
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    Rohini Pande
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    Prajval Jhunjhunwala
    … Primarily supporting the Economic Growth Center's research initiatives, Prajval Jhunjhunwala is a joint MPP/MBA degree … mitigation policies and market-based mechanisms across India to manage high industrial particulate matter pollution. He has also worked to build better data infrastructure capabilities within local governments in …
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    Prajval Jhunjhunwala
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    Insights from 10 years of research on women's opportunities
    … their employment as frontline government workers.  Policy initiatives can support women’s economic opportunities: the … decision makers with information on  women’s knowledge of Covid and experiences through the pandemic , as well as … during economic shocks, such as those imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic .  The news here suggests challenges ahead, both …
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    Female agricultural workers at the study site in Madhya Pradesh. Ishan Tankha
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    How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House
    … appeared in IndiaSpend  on April 8, 2016.   How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House … April 8, 2016 | … labor force participation. There is surprisingly little data to answer  why . But one reason stands out: women can’t …
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    Man and woman on motorbike
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf
    … of Barkha Dutt's Poynter Lecture ,  Inclusion Economics' Nepal launch , Inclusion Economics India Centre's inaugural policy dialogue , the ADBI-Yale … series .  After finishing her time at Yale, Zahrah began working at the US Department of the Treasury as a Financial …
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf
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    Insights from the Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics (NWEPEE)
    … tensions in environmental policy design. Using unique data linking firm production and worker earnings, he … healthcare system during extreme heat. Using hospital data and temperature measurements, they documented a … contract design solutions for renewable energy auctions in India, and Andie Creel (Yale) examined how heat and green …
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    Three men sit at the front of a classroom to answer questions from an audience Noel Sardalla