… for all its faults, has been good to many poor people living in developing countries. Millions in East Asia … and poverty reduction. Penny spoke with us about how changes in world politics affect the approach to reducing … sufficient gains generated by open trade that the winners can compensate the losers and still be better off. That is …

… Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies … June 6, 2021 | … Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India Related people Michael Peters Fabrizio Zilibotti … Tianyu Fan … …

… Read the EGC History article   In Conversation A new series featuring Yale faculty in dialogue about global … current era of trade disruptions. Read the article   EGC Affiliate Spotlight A series highlighting EGC affiliates and their work …

… shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, … This presented a unique opportunity for us to study how norms governing phone use change when phones are provided … directly to women. Read more at IdeasforIndia.in. Related people Giorgia Barboni Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner … Does …

… one of the most complex challenges in global development: how can the clean energy transition move forward both quickly … Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs, and faculty affiliate of Yale’s Economic Growth Center. A central tension … are the rich failing the poor on climate change? Related people Jessica Seddon … Development Dialogues: Who will pay …

… Transparent policy-making makes people less cynical of their government … March 25, 2017 | … bureaucrats on designing evidence-based policies. So how does Nepal benefit from such evidence-based policy-making? And what can it learn from other countries?  Biswas Baral  and  …

… How to get farmers to not burn crop residue By Kelsey Jack, … Jayachandran October 13, 2021 In a few weeks, millions in India will breathe much more polluted air as farmers across … tones of crop residues on fire. Read more here . Related people Rohini Pande … How to get farmers to not burn crop …

… was quoted in a New York Times article exploring how new tariff measures could impact consumer costs for … forward-looking solutions. Development Dialogue: How can emerging economies break free from the sidelines of … – to better understand global policy challenges Related people Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Amit Khandelwal Lauren …

… of multinational firms in spreading technological know-how, promoting foreign innovation, and driving economic … Rapidly urbanizing cities are engines of growth, and many people flock to cities to earn a better living, but many … the Gender and Growth Gaps project and setting up a new series of articles called ‘Perspectives’ on the EGC website …

… historians – who use quantitative techniques to explore how earlier economies developed and evolved – can shed light … banks were disproportionately lending their funds to the people who ran the banks. I thought, wait a minute – that’s … how patent systems have enabled innovation and growth EGC affiliate Naomi Lamoreaux and coauthor Stephen Haber discuss …

… It starts from an important, policy-relevant question: how does the expansion of human capital through improvements … is palpable on every single page. It is a paper that many people will enjoy reading and I am proud of having been a … with incoming professors’ work and interview them 1:1 for Spotlight articles fueled my passion for development …

… How the microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share … microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share risk EGC affiliate Orazio Attanasio and coauthors explain their … an intense debate about whether microcredit can lift people out of poverty. Experimental evidence from a variety …

… Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale and an affiliate of the Economic Growth Center, has received a grant … she says, will allow her to broaden that focus and examine how structural changes in the agriculture sector can drive … see the NSF Announcement of the award . Related people Lauren Falcao Bergquist … Lauren Falcao Bergquist, …

… what causes disparities between groups and steps societies can take to overcome them in her latest column for Science … bodies of social science evidence make increasingly clear how identity politics—in terms of ensuring equal rights for … systems are more likely to  arrest  and  convict  Black people. Physicians discriminate against Black Americans, …