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Yusuf Neggers on using technology to close information gaps and improve governance

… Neggers on using technology to close information gaps and improve governance … Yusuf Neggers … Yusuf Neggers on using technology to close information gaps and improve governance …

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Digital Inclusion & Economic Development: Conversations with Pramod Varma, Alix Zwane, and Rohini Pande

… working to drive innovation, especially across public programs. Varma argues that the most effective DPI is much … Unified Payment Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) and played an integral role in … develops service delivery models to scale evidence-based programs. She also launched Evidence Action Beta, an …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2025: Read the Economic Growth Center Annual Report

… historians, among others – as well as those working in existing institutions – all of whom will bring different … innovations in last-mile governance aimed at improving social programs and strengthening community resilience. Hosted by …

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Understanding Barriers to Women’s Mobile Use in Low-Income Settings

… the use of digital technologies, complex and interlinked social, economic, and human capital barriers may interplay to … are designing and implementing interventions that build on existing Indian government mobile phone distribution programs while taking into account the gender-specific social …

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Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #2: Closing the Digital Gender Gap

… advances do not inevitably include women ( women are 19% less likely than men to use mobile internet ), and they … of digital interventions in tackling barriers to women's social and economic agency and well-being. In this newsletter … constraints on female labor force participation and improve women’s labor market outcomes. Link to the initiative …

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EGC Affiliates’ Research on Latin America and the Caribbean Featured in Oxford Open Economics Supplement

… levels of inequality in the world, despite decades of social and economic change. Researchers at the Economic … Review Related publications Report cards for schools improve learning in Haiti’s private education market …

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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

… Troyer Moore discuss food insecurity in India amidst the COVID pandemic, imploring officials to act. by Rohini Pande , …

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India Launches World's First Particulate Emission Trading

… have been used to reduce other forms of pollution, such as programs that have successfully reduced sulfur dioxide (SO2) … short by about 2 years. The history of cap-and-trade programs also reveals that by employing market forces, they …

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Rohini Pande spoke to an audience of thousands of industry leaders, academics, and policymakers at the June 5, 2019 launch.
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“Brain drain” or “brain gain”? New research identifies a more nuanced story about skilled migration

“Brain drain” or “brain gain”? New research identifies a more nuanced story about skilled migration … Mushfiq Mobarak … “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? New research identifies a more nuanced story about skilled …

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Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India

… support specific firms and industries in adopting existing technologies. These practices often impose implicit … Growth Gaps research project An EGC news item from January 19, 2022, announced the grant supporting the Gender and … effects by blocking some innovations: such forms of protection reduce the expected returns to innovation because …

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Austin Bodetti

… interest, with a focus on technology-driven solutions to social issues. Austin Bodetti … Austin Bodetti Inclusion … interest, with a focus on technology-driven solutions to social issues. … Austin Bodetti, Jackson School class of … interest, with a focus on technology-driven solutions to social issues. … Austin Bodetti …

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Atl Castro Asmussen

… way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a tool to enhance the reliability and … way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a tool to enhance the reliability and … way. He is passionate about journalism and legal research, leveraging writing as a tool to enhance the reliability and …

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Jessica Seddon

… design for integrating science into policy and social initiatives. Seddon’s recent work focuses on … in Madras that focuses on institutional design for social innovation. Seddon has published book chapters and … Press, the Journal of Development Economics, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2023

… more than ever, needs innovative development thinking. The Covid-19 pandemic, which disrupted many of their studies, … for a total of 31 graduates who are moving on to PhD programs and research and policy jobs. We are saying farewell … from southern Spain to study women’s contributions to social status in pre-modern economies; and Diana Van Patten …

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Building In-Country Partnerships in Development Economics: Chris Udry, Francis Annan, and Rohini Pande share insights from Ghana and Beyond

… outsider perspective can help them see elements of the social or economic structure less visible to those who are … California, Berkeley. In trying to understand the complex social, economic, and institutional barriers to economic … countries, including the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research, or ISSER, at the University of …

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