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    Past Visitors
    Past Visitors … Past Visitors Paul W. Rhode University of Michigan Joshua Lewis Université de Montréal John Tang University of Melbourne Laura Salisbury York University Matt Jaremski Colgate University Gavin Wright Stanford University Eric Hilt Wellesley …
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    In Conversation: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and Mayara Felix on inequality in Latin America
    … problem is both historically and politically, with so many people benefiting from the status quo. I think our best hope … began trading goods like sugar, silver – even enslaved people, who were treated as property – which all had profound … impact on inequality and on opportunities for poor people, like my father.  Across my research, it’s clear that …
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    Short-term Visitors
    Short-term Visitors … Short-term Visitors Section Navigation EGC welcomes short-term visitors who join our community for a few weeks or months each year, participating at EGC events and discussions and joining in our intellectual community. Our short-term …
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    Development Dialogues: Are vocational training programs effective?
    … issues training aims to address. Are we training people for jobs that do not exist? A recurring theme in the … If the counterfactual is offering training to people who don't benefit, then it's better to just focus on … interventions and aim for market-level change.  “If many people get trained, maybe a new firm will open... all those …
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    Your inflexible friend
    … Microlending is booming once again. If it is to help people out of poverty, though, it needs to work much better … well, and how it needs to change. The idea of springing people from poverty by advancing them small amounts of money … tasks normally done by well-paid bankers to poor people, Grameen had brought costs down so much that it could …
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    Including vulnerable communities in extreme weather early warning systems
    … accuracy, but the information is often inaccessible to the people who need it most. In this article, Rohini Pande and … to identify what works in delivering flood warnings to people in India imperiled by rising waters. by Maulik Jagnani … predictive technology yields is often inaccessible to the people like Jogender who need it most. We are working with …
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    Reflecting on the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference
    … economics [has focused] on making very very poor people slightly less poor...maybe we want to be a little bit … Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2023 Related people Amit Khandelwal Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Lauren …
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    Attendees of the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference engaging with the presentation by one of the speakers Vestal McIntyre