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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; … can early warning systems spur adaptation and resilience in vulnerable communities? The team at Inclusion Economics is …
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    Technology to Bolster Indian Women’s Financial Autonomy
    … India has one of the world’s lowest rates of women in the workforce. Low female labor force participation – … bank accounts, and knowing how to use them, led women to work more outside the home and liberalized their beliefs about the acceptability of women’s work outside the home. In light of Covid-19, the team is now …
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    Skill India: Improving Vocational Training Outcomes for Young Women
    … government vocational training programs Young people in India are disproportionately unemployed, and young women … training programs, which seek to link youth to formal work through government-run training centers, offer a … peers, suggesting policies to help women navigate job-to-work transitions could deliver important benefits. Since …
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    Lelan Hu
    … Inclusion Economics, where she supports data analytics in the PayDash project. She was previously a Tobin RA at EGC … graduates post-Industrial Revolution. She is interested in governments' differential choices in and implementation for development policy.  Lelan Hu … …
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    Lelan Hu
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 8: Eliana La Ferrara, Samuel Moyn, and Rohini Pande
    … EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 8: Eliana La Ferrara, Samuel … and Rohini Pande … July 10, 2023 | Podcast EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Episode 8: Eliana La Ferrara, Samuel … have to deal with is to move away a little bit from our easy fallback on efficiency as what we want to maximize. …
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    Eliana La Ferrara, Samuel Moyn, and Rohini Pande on addressing hidden barriers to progress Photo by Zahrah Abdulrauf
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    Deanna Ford
    … 50 based at HKS and abroad. Her particular interests lie in building strong inroads for research and evidence to … Development Bank, the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. and the Fabretto Children’s Foundation. She has … economics at Princeton University. Explore Deanna Ford's work See Selected Publications … Deanna is the Managing …
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    Deanna Ford
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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 … delivery? As India expands its use of community-led audits in a flagship social protection program, the team at …
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    A group of women attend a village assembly meeting. UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
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    From 1960s political exile to EGC visiting scholar: development theorist Celso Furtado
    … of Brazil, Furtado accepted an invitation to come to Yale in 1964. He would go on to become a leading scholar of … economists of the 20th century, known both for his policy work creating economic development programs in Brazil and his academic work theorizing the evolution of Latin American economies. …
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    Celso Furtado (left) and Clóvis Cavalcanti (right) in Recife, a city in the Northeast region of Brazil in 1977. Furtado founded SUDENE, a government development agency that sought to reduce poverty in the Northeast region. Clóvis Cavalcanti
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    International Monetary Fund Finance & Development Magazine profiles EGC's Rohini Pande
    … By Peter J. Walker June, 2021 In 1990 the Indian government said it would set aside some … student protests and violence, including self-immolations. In the relative peace of the classroom, Rohini Pande, a … Magazine profiles EGC's Rohini Pande … June 2, 2021 | In the News International Monetary Fund Finance & Development …
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    Empowering women through direct digital payments
    … Empowering women through direct digital payments … Erica Field … Rohini Pande … Natalia Rigol … … Charity Troyer Moore … Empowering women through direct digital payments …
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    Female agricultural workers at the study site in Madhya Pradesh. Ishan Tankha
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    Jobs & Research Fellowships
    … communications activities and support affiliated faculty in making a public case for their work. The Director will play a key role building the … microeconomic research projects on women’s access to digital technology in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.   …
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    Group photo of EGC and YIE staff, standing outside 27 HH.
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    Diana K. Perez Lopez
    … to early childhood development interventions, measurement in economics, and inequality. Diana will start her PhD in Economics at Yale University this fall. I am grateful for … The mentorship and training I received were invaluable in broadening my scope of research topics and developing …
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    Diana K. Perez Lopez