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    How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a groundbreaking path in computer science
    … path in computer science … September 14, 2020 | EGC History How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers … Award in 2018 for her contributions to the field of computer architecture – and her interest in computer science started in her role as a secretary at EGC in the 60s. Photo courtesy Susan Eggers by Lisa Qian …
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    Eggers as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s. She decided to pursue a PhD after 19 years working in New Haven. Photo courtesy Susan Eggers
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    For students
    … students across the university to help foster a community of intellectual engagement and applied learning around issues … development, economic growth and policy impact. Events EGC hosts a variety of events for students, faculty and … visit our events page or subscribe to our mailing list. EGC Events Page Support for Graduate Students EGC supports …
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    Some of the IDE '24 cohort kayaking in East Rock Park Anna Groesser
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    Past Research Award Recipients
    … Award Recipients 2024 Cheolhwan Kim, " Spacial Expansion of Environmental Policies: Local Pollutant Cap-and Trade … Emissions", $1,650 (Secondary Data Acquisition Grant)   2022 Lucas Conwell , "Private Public Transport: Minibuses in … South Africa", $20,000 (Sylff Research Award) & $12,310 (EGC PhD Dissertation Research Grant) Ryungha Oh , "What …
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    Covid-19 in low-income countries
    … … Covid-19 in low-income countries Faculty engagement EGC affiliates are conducting a range of research and communications activities to address the … transfers during and after the economic downturn. A new EGC Discussion Paper  shows that payments helped stabilize …
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    Woman standing in line, holding a baby and getting food and milk from government official. Rupak De Chowdhuri, Reuters
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    Rohini Pande and coauthors in VoxDev: How does microenterprise growth impact child outcomes?
    … growth impact child outcomes? October 12, 2023: EGC affiliate Rohini Pande, and coauthors Patrick Agte, … emphasise small enterprise development as a means of generating self-sustaining income growth for the poor. We … educational mobility in the world (Asher et al. 2022). Will income gains for entrepreneur parents result in …
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    A street in Bihar, India
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    Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies
    … Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies … June 6, 2021 | Perspectives Peters, … Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies In a post originally published on VoxDev, EGC affiliates Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti and …
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    Line of male and female workers at computers standing and working. PradeepGaurs 2, Shutterstock
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    Lloyd Reynolds and the founding of the Economic Growth Center
    … Lloyd Reynolds and the founding of the Economic Growth Center … October 8, 2020 | EGC History Lloyd Reynolds and the founding of the Economic … by examining them up-close. by Lisa Qian Lloyd Reynolds, EGC, and the development of Development Economics  During its …
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    Saxena & Shukla: Improving Markets to Unlock Growth and Development
    … the 2023 “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference, two of its organizers look at recent research. The conference … will be hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC) and the International Growth Centre (IGC) with a live … grain market, Narela anaj mandi, in Delhi, India, May 2022. A twin challenge for policymakers Policymakers in LMICs …
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    Event recap: Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2024
    … play in shaping economic outcomes? These were some of the questions explored at the 2024 Firms, Trade, and … Conference , co-hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC) and the International Growth Centre (IGC). Held on … year running that the conference was jointly hosted by EGC and IGC, however unlike last year, this year the event …
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    A wide shot of the audience at the 2024 Firms, Trade and Development Conference
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    How Nancy Birdsall’s time at Yale Economic Growth Center helped her rethink global development
    … her rethink global development … November 17, 2021 | EGC History How Nancy Birdsall’s time at Yale Economic Growth … is known widely for her contributions to the field of international development, calling attention to the … usual economics Ph.D. student. She had not taken a math class since high school, so she took undergraduate “calculus …
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    Nancy Birdsall at a conference organized by the Center for Global Development in the 2010s. CGD
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    Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador
    … incentives for adopting it. A new study co-authored by EGC Affiliates David Argente and Diana Van Patten of the Yale School of Management found that a lack of trust … their questions to Salvadorans themselves. In February 2022, in partnership with the research firm CID Gallup, they …
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    Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures
    … Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures … July 23, 2020 | News Expanding the scope of India's Covid-19 relief measures An April 2020 survey conducted by a team of researchers finds that India's food distribution system …
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    Photo of two women carrying baskets on their heads walking on the street. Joseph Kiesecker
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    Economist Dudley Seers used time at Yale in the 1960s to reimagine international development
    … to reimagine international development … July 22, 2021 | EGC History Economist Dudley Seers used time at Yale in the … the early 1960s, Seers brought iconoclastic ideas to the EGC as a visiting scholar — and wrote seminal papers that still resonate today. Photo courtesy of Institute of Development Studies by Greg Larson What is …
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    Dudley Seers Photo courtesy of Institute of Development Studies