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Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households

… Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households … Building Community-level Flood Early Warning Systems for Vulnerable Households …

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Understanding the Impact of Testing and Tracing on Nepal's Covid-19 Caseload

… Understanding the Impact of Testing and Tracing on Nepal's Covid-19 Caseload … Understanding the Impact of Testing and Tracing on Nepal's Covid-19 Caseload …

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Rohini Pande and Michael Callen in EPoD: EPoD in Nepal: Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Policymaking

EPoD in Nepal: Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Policymaking By Rohini Pande and Michael Callene March 23, 2017 Teams from Evidence for Policy Design conducted a series of complementary activities in Kathmandu in March to advance the use of data and …

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Leveraging Nepal's Existing Social Protection Programs to Improve Covid-19 Response

… Nepal's Existing Social Protection Programs to Improve Covid-19 Response … Leveraging Nepal's Existing Social Protection Programs to Improve Covid-19 Response …

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Rethinking Nepal's local health infrastructure in light of Covid-19

… Rethinking Nepal's local health infrastructure in light of Covid-19 … Rethinking Nepal's local health infrastructure in light of Covid-19 …

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Yale researchers offer new economic perspectives on climate mitigation, adaptation & negotiations

… also 57% more likely to report receiving highly accurate flood alerts. Studies like these reflect the importance of …

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Event recap: Last-Mile Innovations for Inclusive Governance: Research and Policy Symposium

… amplifying last-mile impact of Google’s Android-based flood forecasting and alert system in Bihar . Despite … advancements in accuracy and timeliness of Google’s flood predictions, many households reported not receiving any …

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Climate Change & Water Scarcity: Islamul Haque and Mushfiq Mobarak on crafting research based on community needs in Bangladesh

… insurance and clean-burning cookstoves. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he examined how masks affect Covid-19 transmission, and how to get people to use them. …

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Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration by Mushfiq Mobarak

… winners had migrated internationally compared with only 19 percent of the lottery losers. Using the lottery outcome …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, September 2020

… and faculty look to find ways to collaborate remotely, the Covid-19 pandemic affects every aspect of daily life, and we are … CNN en Español; EGC researchers and Google create smart flood alerts in India and Bangladesh. Read recent op-eds and …

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The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries

… The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health in Low and Middle-Income … … Michael Walker … Wendy Janssens … The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mental Health in Low and Middle-Income …

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Upcoming conferences

… Upcoming conferences … Upcoming conferences Harnessing Human Capital for Growth and … 2025 Conference Oct 24 — Oct 25, 2025 Learn More … Upcoming conferences …

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Vineet Gupta

… at EGC from June 2021 to July 2022 implementing the Google Flood Alerts dissemination intervention as well as analyzing … and qualitative feedback on the evaluation to ensure that flood warnings could be efficiently and widely disseminated … at EGC from June 2021 to July 2022 implementing the Google Flood Alerts dissemination intervention as well as analyzing …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter: February 2021

… have experienced an unequal share of the hardship. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the inequality between countries, and … opportunities, putting them to work on data analysis for Covid-related projects in South Asia. In our development …

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Pande and Coauthors in the Indian Express: How to get farmers to not burn crop residue

… burn stubble to clear fields for the winter wheat sowing season. It is both a health and an environmental hazard that … burn stubble to clear fields for the winter wheat sowing season. It is both a health and an environmental hazard that … burn stubble to clear fields for the winter wheat sowing season. It is both a health and an environmental hazard that …

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