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    Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies
    … and coauthor Tianyu Fan discuss how households in India have gained—and lost—from a rapidly-growing service … that allows us to infer productivity growth from micro data on employment, wages, and human capital, we document … Development Accounting across Indian Districts," NBER Working Paper 28551. Herrendorf, B, R Rogerson and A …
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    Shreya Bajaj
    … servant in the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India for more than six years, where she worked on … servant in the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India for more than six years, where she worked on … servant in the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India for more than six years, where she worked on …
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    Your inflexible friend
    … wants them these days, even in a dusty suburb in one of India’s poorest states. So Mr Iqbal has branched out. First … away, though, microlending is booming. MIX, which collects data on the industry, estimates that the number of borrowers … profits were 41% higher and household incomes were up by 19.5%. If microlending could routinely deliver results like …
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    Indian men in their shops. Alamy
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    Yale Welcomes Eliana La Ferrara for a Lecture on the Power of Social Factors in the Development Process
    … the economic effects of lacking credit access. But while working on this in Africa, I also became interested in the … to the public, from health to agriculture, and collected data to understand how viewers responded to the messages. … and native students in Italian middle schools. The data showed that high-achieving immigrant students often …
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    Mayara Felix
    Mayara Felix is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at the Department of Economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, an EGC Faculty Affiliate, and an invited researcher at J-PAL Latin …
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    Mayara Felix
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    A brief history of EGC
    … influence on the international/national bureau type data collection. Every country was supposed to have a similar type of data base. The heavy influence on this was from Simon … Kuznets, as you can imagine. There was a big debate about data without theory or theory without data. He and Koopmans …
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    EGC Voices in Development Podcast, Season 2 Episode 1: Nicholas Ryan
    … policy, due to the attention it pays to empirical data and the costs and benefits to different stakeholders.   … economists, I think, do a great job of collecting data and disciplining the research they do by people's actual … with policy-research team to plan carbon trading in India Related people Nicholas Ryan … EGC Voices in …
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    Nick Ryan Podcast
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    Research
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