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    Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India
    Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India … Ishan Tankha Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India Can measures to expand women’s access to social protection programs through digital payments boost their economic empowerment? …
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    An interior view of a white-walled building, looking out at a young woman standing in the doorway. Ishan Tankha
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, June 2020
    … and travel plans vanish. Now they are crunching data and writing briefs about Covid-related research from … head-on. They are also helping us create longer term data archives. I invite you to keep checking EGC’s new …
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    A man in a Covid mask distributes food on a street in Nepal. Denis Dymov, Shutterstock
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    Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India
    Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India … Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India Can payments to farmers reduce crop-burning that causes negative environmental externalities? The team at Inclusion Economics has evaluated how a payment for …
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    Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility
    Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility … Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility Research suggests microfinance is not as transformative as originally thought. Can adaptations to …
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    Woman using smartphone CRS PHOTO, Shutterstock
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    EGC History Timeline
    EGC History Timeline … EGC History Timeline In celebration of EGC’s 60th anniversary in 2021, the Center documented its rich history. The aim was to recognize the people who made up EGC — the founders, faculty, students, and visitors — to understand how …
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    Using Community-led Audits to Improve Social Protection in India
    Using Community-led Audits to Improve Social Protection in India … UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok Using Community-led Audits to Improve Social Protection in India Can local citizens be employed to fight corruption and improve service delivery? As India …
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    A group of women attend a village assembly meeting. UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
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    A brief history of EGC
    … influence on the international/national bureau type data collection. Every country was supposed to have a similar type of data base. The heavy influence on this was from Simon … Kuznets, as you can imagine. There was a big debate about data without theory or theory without data. He and Koopmans …
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    Making Pay-As-You-Go Work for Women in Kenya
    … Africa. Drawing on existing evidence, administrative data, and qualitative research, this project aims to … See more Implementation Partners: M-KOPA Caribou Digital Data Collection Partner: Busara This research has received …
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    M-KOPA Agent poster Erik Jorgensen