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    Foreign Policy covers Rohini Pande's Research on women and work
    … Foreign Policy covers Rohini Pande's Research on women and work … January 25, 2022 | In the News Foreign Policy covers Rohini Pande's Research on women and work Research with Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, … Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore finds that giving women more control over their earnings leads to many …
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    Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India
    … Empowering Women through Public Policy in Bihar, India … Ishan Tankha … to enhance women’s access to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the government's massive rural workfare program, and through this, catalyzing their …
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    An interior view of a white-walled building, looking out at a young woman standing in the doorway. Ishan Tankha
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    How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House
    … in IndiaSpend  on April 8, 2016.   How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House … April 8, … that disparity, and a pilot survey we conducted of rural youth in Bhopal and Sehore backs it up: 91% of below … structured around thousands of community-based project sites. In addition to localizing project sites close to where …
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    Financial Control to Increase Women’s Autonomy in Madhya Pradesh, India
    … Financial Control to Increase Women’s Autonomy in Madhya Pradesh, India … Financial Control … Low female labor force participation – especially in rural areas – constrains India’s economic growth and limits … Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. …
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    EGC affiliates in USC's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics: A Tough Call: How Can We Close the Gender Gap in Mobile Phone Use in India?
    … services have been found to improve the functioning of rural markets, boost educational outcomes, and even reduce … reap its benefits, is not equally available to men and women, particularly for women in South Asian countries. … services have been found to improve the functioning of rural markets, boost educational outcomes, and even reduce …
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    Event recap: Last-Mile Innovations for Inclusive Governance: Research and Policy Symposium
    … and foster inclusion in MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme), India's flagship workfare … accounts for their MGNREGS direct deposit, and training women on how to use them was able to socially and … Shri Charanjit Singh (Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India) emphasized the …
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    Measuring Time Use in Rural India: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Survey Module
    … Measuring Time Use in Rural India: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Survey Module … Ishan Tankha Measuring Time Use in Rural India: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Survey … of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home …
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    A top-down view of a person sitting cross-legged in front of four sheets of paper. Each piece of paper has a pile of small yellow disks on it. Ishan Tankha
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    Looking back on “Gender-Sensitive Economic Recovery and Resilience in Asia”
    … in Tokyo explored factors that enable and constrain women’s economic activity in Asia, and how research can … the successes of government social protection programs for rural women, and the need for more targeted support for young … constraints to female employment: highlighting how, among others, job scarcity and restrictive gender norms are …
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    Technology to Bolster Indian Women’s Financial Autonomy
    … Technology to Bolster Indian Women’s Financial Autonomy … Technology to Bolster Indian … Low female labor force participation – especially in rural areas – constrains India’s economic growth and limits … in the state of Madhya Pradesh to analyze how boosting rural women's financial control over their income can expand …
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    Innovations for Inclusive Banking in Rural Tamil Nadu
    … Innovations for Inclusive Banking in Rural Tamil Nadu … EPoD Harvard Innovations for Inclusive Banking in Rural Tamil Nadu Across the world, the rural poor struggle to … Initiative (ATAI) Gates Foundation ExxonMobil via the  Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School …
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    A small lime-green building with an open storefront serves as a rural bank. EPoD Harvard
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    Follow-Up: A New Ending in Tale of Young Woman From Rural India
    …   Follow-Up: A New Ending in Tale of Young Woman From Rural India … December 8, 2016 | News Follow-Up: A New Ending in Tale of Young Woman From Rural India December 8, 2016: Times Insider provides … this fall about efforts in India to place poor young rural women in minimum-wage manufacturing jobs. Ellen Barry   By …
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    Prabhati and Shashi Das reunite in their Bangalore hotel. Ellen Barry
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    Event Recap: Development and Organizations
    … create value and improve welfare. For example, although women have largely closed the education gap in recent … incentivize taxpayer compliance. Aman-Rana highlighted the fact that technology reforms must be combined with …
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    A group photo of attendees at the 2025 Kuznets mini-conference Julia Luckett