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    Naomi Lamoreaux on Her Wide-Ranging Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History
    … career ahead of a mini-conference in honor of her research. by Greg Larson Q&A: Naomi Lamoreaux As the saying … While working on a project about banking and finance in New England in the early nineteenth century, I looked at bank … stuff – we shouldn’t worry so much about whether a firm is large, per se, but whether it is doing bad things.  …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux in the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2018
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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 … to relay flood alerts at scale. In 2019, Google piloted a new AI-powered, Android-based flood forecasting and alert … behaviors over a set of highly-variable flood seasons, the research will offer important lessons for responding to the …
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    Looking back on the "Women and the Digital Economy" event
    … Economics at Yale University (YIE) have conducted rigorous research to address the multifaceted challenges Indian women … reversing the gender gap, the longer-run follow-up shows that it did not close gender gaps in ownership and … tools to help recipients access the state through those new phones, to provide government services digitally at …
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    Attendees of the "Women and the Digital Economy" event engaged in a discussion
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    Covid-19 Data Initiatives in India and Nepal: Working toward an Inclusive Response
    … Covid-19 Data Initiatives in India and Nepal: Working toward an Inclusive Response … … of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The mission of the South Asia research group led by Rohini Pande  of EGC and Charity Troyer … the pandemic and its economic consequences? How can these new challenges be converted into opportunities for women to …
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    Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore in Hindustan Times: On Her Own Account: Impact of Strengthening Women's Financial Control
    … Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore October 20, 2021 India is an outlier among countries at a similar level of … period, but they continue to vastly outnumber women in India’s workforce. Several studies suggest Covid-19 may have … and bank training leads to more time spent working outside the home, more financial autonomy, more progressive …
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    Targeting Payments to Preserve Community Forests in India
    … Targeting Payments to Preserve Community Forests in India … Inclusion Economics Targeting Payments to Preserve … See more Maike Pfeiffer, Yale University See more Research Partner: Inclusion Economics India Centre (IEIC) at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Implementation Partner: Meghalaya Basin …
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    Image showing community forests in the Indian state of Meghalaya Inclusion Economics
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    Star Power: Maharashtra Starts Rating Industries By Emissions
    … The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) launched a new Star Rating Programme for air pollution on June 5, … readings into an easy-to-understand Star Rating. Under the new scheme, industries are rated based on the density of fine … to access the report cards for plants in their area. India is making headway to ambitious goals for clean energy, …
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    Photo of industrial buildings EPoD Harvard Flickr
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf
    … ,  Inclusion Economics' Nepal launch , Inclusion Economics India Centre's inaugural policy dialogue , the ADBI-Yale … other events with the aim of communicating EGC and IE's research to policy, academic, and general audiences. In … other events with the aim of communicating EGC and IE's research to policy, academic, and general audiences. In …
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    Zahrah Abdulrauf
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    Aakash Bhalothia
    … IVRS calls on bank usage rates for rural women in India. Aakash also got the opportunity to work with … in India. He gained useful skills and insights into the research process. His work also heavily influenced his current research interests, as he continues to work on FLFP in India. …
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    Aakash Bhalothia