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    Yale welcomes back Leonard Wantchekon for a talk on politics and economic development
    … or remove these distortions altogether? This requires us to think about the role of government from a different … infrastructure, and so on. However, we can go deeper if we consider which institutional designs will maximize … about how the policy process should be arranged, so that you are more likely to get broad support and avoid such …
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    Leonard Wantchekon
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    Broken politics, economic growth, and institutional reform: a Q&A with Leonard Wantchekon
    … or remove these distortions altogether? This requires us to think about the role of government from a different … infrastructure, and so on. However, we can go deeper if we consider which institutional designs will maximize … about how the policy process should be arranged, so that you are more likely to get broad support and avoid such …
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    Princeton University professor Leonard Wantchekon
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    A brief history of EGC
    … folks. It warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of you here; I’m happy to see the young folks as well, but the … We looked for typologies of development and I’m not sure if everything always went the way we had hoped. We had hoped … a half a million dollars per year. Ford after having given us two million dollars kept supporting us for some time. But …
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    Pande and Coauthors: Impersonal Government is Good
    … Pande and Coauthors: Impersonal Government is Good … December … not always an innocuous act. Exposing corruption can make you enemies, and accounts abound of RTI users and activists … Although it is the last goal on the list, it would enable us to track progress on all the others. The “timely” aspect …
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    Rohini Pande elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    … Rohini Pande, the Henry J. Heinz Professor of Economics and director … diverse as anthropology, geography, law, and medicine . “We are celebrating a depth of achievements in a breath of … of the AAAS. “These individuals excel in ways that excite us and inspire us at a time when recognizing excellence, …
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    Rohini Pande Awarded Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
    … incoming Director of the Economic Growth Center, Rohini Pande, is the recipient of the 2018 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. … AEA can take to remove barriers to women’s advancement. “We need to all acknowledge that using the talents of all of us to the full will make us a stronger and better profession …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, April 2021
    … Funaoka (Japan), Frank Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago), and Roy Clarke (Barbados). Photo courtesy Edmar Bacha. In some … the rich history of this remarkable program. Rohini Pande  Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics Director, … life, play guitar, and has never met a stranger. If he isn’t responding to an email, he can be found playing …
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    Development Dialogues: Are vocational training programs effective?
    … training programs in low- and middle-income countries: Are we expecting too much from these interventions, or are we … transformational. “Maybe depending on which meta-analysis you look at, we are talking of 5, 6, 7, percentage points … trial that explored whether offering training on a ‘pay if employed’ basis would work. “Take-up was very low, and …
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    The EGC Annual Report 2020-21
    … and political power in the hands of the few. I invite you to follow the link and read highlights from EGC’s … we are launching, and find opportunities to engage with us.  The Center exists to support the research and teaching … direction as we set a course for the coming years. Rohini Pande Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics Director, …
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits
    … Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits … … that they have not meaningfully reduced deforestation. If a scheme does not preserve forests relative to a baseline, … to charge customers to access – essentially, aiming to compete in a market for information that will ostensibly …
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    Deforestation to rainforest in Borneo Rich Carey, ShutterStock
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    Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition?
    … system that we all live in.” - Max Bearak Moving beyond ‘us versus them’ in global climate debates The panel … would require substantial buyouts to decommission early. “If you want them to retire the coal plants they already have, …
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    The cover for Development Dialogue episode 5
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    5 Insights from Day 1 of the Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference
    … this gap will continue to widen – as co-organizer Rohini Pande  argued  recently in  Science : “The climate crisis is … an implementation gap and an ambition gap,” she said. “ If we accept that economic growth will remain a priority, we … than the insurance because what the forecast is telling you is the likely realization of this monsoon arrival, so you …
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    Image showing Catherine Wolfram presenting her work during day 1 of the Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference