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BCURE Case: Improving industrial monitoring to cut air pollution in India

… Improving industrial monitoring to cut air pollution in India … September 1, 2016 | News BCURE Case: Improving … mechanism depends on monitoring that yields verifiable data – otherwise, industries can complain that they are being … global greenhouse gas emissions covered by carbon pricing initiatives from 13 per cent to about 25 per cent. …

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Star Power: Maharashtra Starts Rating Industries By Emissions

… Environment Day. The program uses smoke-stack emissions data that MPCB is already collecting. But, since sampling … to access the report cards for plants in their area. India is making headway to ambitious goals for clean energy, … is the first government-led initiative in India that makes data available from approximately 20,000 industrial stack …

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Is Nepal on a Path Towards Gender Inclusive Political Leadership?

… Is Nepal on a Path Towards Gender Inclusive Political Leadership? … Rohini Pande … Michael … … Stefano Fiorin … Binod Paudel … Sarah Danner … Is Nepal on a Path Towards Gender Inclusive Political Leadership? …

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Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore in The Indian Express: In times of pandemic, PDS shops should provide rations to all

… and Charity Troyer Moore discuss food insecurity in India amidst the COVID pandemic, imploring officials to act. by Rohini Pande , … Simone Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore In the early days of India’s lockdown, stories of food insecurity were rampant. As …

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Pande and coauthors in the Hindustan Times: Will caste be the future of Indian politics?

… worth a handful of seats in the two largest states in India. Worse still for the Congress, the two Yadavs — canny … worth a handful of seats in the two largest states in India. Worse still for the Congress, the two Yadavs — canny … worth a handful of seats in the two largest states in India. Worse still for the Congress, the two Yadavs — canny …

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Key Insights from Day 2 of the Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference

… include greater integration of environmental and economic data across governments and between countries, better … but also signifies a shift towards more sustainable and inclusive economic policies. Collectively, these commitments … and natural accounts, and is spearheading new initiatives to augment these accounts In 1973, William …

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Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households in India

… Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households in India … Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households in India Climate change is disrupting lives and livelihoods; how … vulnerable communities? The team at Inclusion Economics is working with Google.org to increase the reach and …

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Rohini Pande in The Kathmandu Post: Strengthening female representation

… Paudel & Satish Wasti Sadhana Devi Pradhan made history as Nepal’s first democratically-elected local representative in … 1997 when women won 21 percent of local seats. In 2017, in Nepal’s first elections under the new federal constitution …

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Hongdi Zhao

… environmental health, and women’s economic empowerment in India. The hands-on research experience at EPoD/EGC provided … really lucky to be part of EPoD/EGC and to have experience working with so many top development economists. The … environmental health, and women’s economic empowerment in India. The hands-on research experience at EPoD/EGC provided …

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Devina Aggarwal

… the intersection between economic development and inclusive policy-making, particularly in the context of India. In addition, Devina served as the Chairwoman of Smart … inclusive policy-making, particularly in the context of India. In addition, Devina served as the Chairwoman of Smart …

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Looking back on the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Economic Justice Virtual Symposium

… Wilkerson relates the social stratification system in India with equivalent hierarchies in other contexts, from the … recent series of events that we helped organize made steps toward filling gaps in our understanding of the links between … sessions explored how social stratification affects policy response and policy design. The studies in the morning …

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Pande in Science Magazine: The climate crisis is a crisis of inequality

… more than a financial transfer. It’s important that such initiatives are seen both to be deliberately progressive and … The same logic extends to emerging economies such as India and China, where inequality is fast rising. Third, … without increasing carbon emissions. However, such initiatives often lack transparency and accountability . …

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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 … in many low- and middle-income countries, including India. A major source of air pollution in some agricultural …

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Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition?

… and environmental policy expert whose career spans India and the U.S. She focuses on how institutions can better use data to tackle challenges like air quality and climate risk. … the books, there are many rules on paper, and they’re not working.” - Anant Sudarshan Seddon linked this to …

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EGC Incubation Fund

… embedded development research, and employing novel data methods, can however be time–consuming and expensive. … actionable information to improve natural disaster response. Other research examines migration responses to … state spending priorities and how to assist governments in working efficiently and effectively in areas ranging from …

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