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Okuyiga and Lakshmi Ratan in NextBillion: What the Backlash to Trade Liberalization Means for Business Growth and Global Inequality

… and the greater ease of shifting jobs from high- to low-wage parts of the world, some countries are reconsidering … trade have recovered after a sharp drop caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the trade openness index has been in decline …

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The Robert E. Evenson Fund

… to support data collection and travel to less developed countries by new Yale economics faculty and graduate … could fruitfully be used to test theory about behavior in low-income countries. This was done principally through visits to …

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Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: "On the Economic Costs of Ending DEI"

… jobs does not effectively allocate talent. Economies and countries are most productive when talent is optimally … and produce suboptimal economic outcomes. DEI initiatives seek to compensate for these structural frictions … which focuses on discrimination in Federal contracting and funding, and may include actions such as outreach 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

… among countries at a similar level of development with its low rate of women in the workforce – an obstacle to economic … women in India’s workforce. Several studies suggest Covid-19 may have widened this gap. Conservative social and …

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Initiatives

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Mushfiq Mobarak

… experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely … and other local institutions to devise evidence-based COVID response strategies . He collaborated with governments … Paper (Apr 2021) The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh Discussion Paper …

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Data poverty makes it harder to fix real poverty. That’s why the UN should push countries to gather and share data.

… data deprivation, by stating an aim to build on existing initiatives and “support statistical capacity building in … World Bank data shows that between 1977 and 2012, high-income countries, on average, collected data on poverty every 2 years, 3.5 times as often as low-income countries. There are exceptions, India being one …

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EGC affiliates present research at Rwanda policy dialogue featuring Yale President Peter Salovey

… research center dedicated to quantitative analysis of low- and middle-income economies at a major university in the United States, … research. The Center is home to a variety of research initiatives which support projects carried out in close …

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Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: “Identity politics” is economic policy

… right attacked DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives in firms and colleges, and those attacks have … closely correlated with economic status, such as income, individual wealth, societal wealth, and access to … successful applicants. So, for example, a candidate from a low-income family in a majority nonwhite community who ranked …

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Pande in Science Magazine: Offsets, carbon markets, and climate and economic justice

… on less than $2.15 per day. The majority live in low-income and lower-middle-income countries . The traditional pathway for economic development …

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Development Dialogues: Namrata Kala, Rohini Pande & Catherine Wolfram on financing climate adaptation

… related to sustainable development and economic justice in low- and middle-income countries. What are the most critical gaps in financing …

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Russell Morton

… on understanding how the organization of production in low-income countries affects how efficiently supply chains operate and …

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Costas Meghir on the economics of early childhood development

Costas Meghir on the economics of early childhood development … Costas Meghir … Costas Meghir on the economics of early childhood …

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In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development

… childhood investments change the course of lives in lower-income countries? Meghir, a faculty affiliate of EGC and Inclusion … employment, and health outcomes. Yet ECD systems in many low- and middle-income countries remain weak or …

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

… related to sustainable development and economic justice in low- and middle-income countries. This episode features Christopher Udry, Francis …

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