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    Farmer Payments to Reduce Crop Burning in India
    … scheme can increase compliance through upfront payments. Cash transfers and air pollution Air pollution is the top … Can Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), whereby cash transfers are given out conditional on not burning, … increased farmers’ trust that they would receive the full cash transfer for complying with the condition against crop …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, April 2021
    … Orazio Attanasio and coauthor analyze how conditional cash transfer programs affect food prices, Penny Goldberg and coauthors use global learning …
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    Bacha and classmate
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits
    … Rich Carey, ShutterStock by Rohini Pande This article first appeared in  Science  on January 11, 2024 The world’s … the wood for charcoal, and using the space to grow both food and cash crops. But the benefits of preservation accrue slowly to …
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    Deforestation to rainforest in Borneo Rich Carey, ShutterStock
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    From 1960s political exile to EGC visiting scholar: development theorist Celso Furtado
    … department, proposing that Furtado come spend the first year of his exile in New Haven as a visiting professor … began to view this transition period more positively. “The first place where he could feel safe was Yale,” Clóvis … ambassador to the European Economic Community and later, from 1986-1990, he was Brazil’s Minister of Culture. …
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    Celso Furtado (left) and Clóvis Cavalcanti (right) in Recife, a city in the Northeast region of Brazil in 1977. Furtado founded SUDENE, a government development agency that sought to reduce poverty in the Northeast region. Clóvis Cavalcanti
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    EGC Celebrates the Class of 2025, their achievements and future plans
    … him as he takes up his new position at Temple University later this summer. One of our first conversations after his arrival on campus revolved … to have Vaishnavi working with us this year to study cash transfers and female labor force participation in India. …
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    A PhD graduate presenting with slides Kaveh Sardari
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    BCURE Case: Data transparency in India's flagship social protection program
    … PoD Harvard Flickr by Vestal McIntyre     This article first appeared in  Evidence for Policy Design  in … budget should be diverted toward skilling or unconditional cash transfers, down to the program’s acronym (MGNREGS vs. … program was phased in earlier compared to where it arrived later. Observational studies reviewed in an article by Dilip …
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    Woman and child looking at building PoD Harvard Flickr
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    Our History
    … EGC was the first development research center in a major US university to … development. Our History … Our History EGC was the first development research center in a major US university to … funding from the Ford Foundation in 1961. The Center's first Annual Report gives an account of its origins: Several …
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    Mark Rosenzweig reappointed as Director of Economic Growth Center
    … Anyone in the world can download the datasets from the first two rounds. How do you collect the data? We visit the … work when the Economic Growth Center started: The Food Research Institute at Stanford and the Harvard Institute … work when the Economic Growth Center started: The Food Research Institute at Stanford and the Harvard Institute …
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    How to pinpoint Delhi's air-pollution sources
    … This article first appeared in Business Standard in January 20, 2016.   … Anindito Mukherjee, Reuters by Eric Dodge This article first appeared in Business Standard in January 20, 2016.   … quality of air to improve, the quality of information must first rise. With even a rough idea of source apportionment, …
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    Power lines seen through pollution. Anindito Mukherjee, Reuters