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    Pande in Science Magazine: The climate crisis is a crisis of inequality
    … reduce it. Historically, the premise that  economic growth “lifts all boats”  has justified maximizing growth, … corresponds with  climate shock sensitivity.  The world’s poor are more likely to reside in  climate-vulnerable … more Pande: "Can democracy work for the poor?" Related Events Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference …
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    The Impact of Political Transformation on Candidate Selection in Nepal
    … more inclusive political representation? Focusing on Nepal’s first fully democratic local elections, the team at … selection committee surveys, electoral data, and an 11-district census of 3.68 million Nepalis. Our initial … This research has received support from: International Growth Centre  (IGC) UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development …
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    Support for Graduate Students
    … Students … Support for Graduate Students The Economic Growth Center provides fellowship awards, research funding, … from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowships Fund (Sylff) Research Fund. The award competition is open to … of data or other justified expenses related to the student’s dissertation research. For more information on the program …
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    How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a groundbreaking path in computer science
    … Eggers, a data request from her boss at the Yale Economic Growth Center in the mid 1960s initiated her path-breaking … She majored in economics at Connecticut College, a women’s college at the time, but did not expect to work as an … Mariam Chamberlin Nancy Ruggles CSWEP Founders Related Events Pioneering Women: Economic Growth Center and Yale …
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    Eggers as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s. She decided to pursue a PhD after 19 years working in New Haven. Photo courtesy Susan Eggers
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    BCURE Case: Improving industrial monitoring to cut air pollution in India
    … across the street there are dust-coated posters of Gujarat’s two most famous sons: Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi. The … had two components – one installed at the industry sites that communicated with CEMS device software and the … protocol. Researchers installed CEMS devices in 11 plants in Gujarat, and tested the system. They also …
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    Measuring local governance capacity in Nepal
    … economic inequities? The Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition (RENT) program is building a practical evidence … Local Government Capacity and Responsiveness Nepal's transition to federalism empowered new political actors … more critical. What is enabling or constraining inclusive growth, state capacity, public services, private sector …
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    Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies
    … Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies … June 6, 2021 | Perspectives … and hence present a viable development strategy for today’s developing world? In our recent study on service-led growth … in ICT, consumer services still comprise the lion’s share of its service sector. At first glance, this might …
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #7: Women in Leadership
    … Listed firms quadrupled their female board share from 11.3% in 2009 to 42.3% in 2021, while large non-listed firms … of appointing more women at the top.   Policy Engagement, Events & Media Coverage EGC at the World Bank-IMF Spring … Nepal led a 2-hour plenary session on December 20, 2024 that brought together a group of distinguished female …
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    Yale Welcomes Christopher Udry Back for a Lecture on Surprising New Data About Structural Transformation
    … New Data About Structural Transformation … March 25, 2024 | News Yale Welcomes Christopher Udry Back for a Lecture … productivity in this key primary sector?    In a series of events on April 4 and 5 at Yale, economists will present new … Growth Center. “We couldn’t be more excited for Chris’s Kuznets lecture on the evolving relationship between …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, June 2020
    … Denis Dymov, Shutterstock Subscribe to receive EGC's quarterly newsletter EGC and development research, past and … Lloyd Reynolds, the founding director of Economic Growth Center wrote in 1968, “Economic development is an … developing economies – both on health and economic fronts. Events Penny Goldberg delivered the 30th annual Kuznets …
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    A man in a Covid mask distributes food on a street in Nepal. Denis Dymov, Shutterstock
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    Michael Peters
    … joining Yale. In his research he focuses on economic growth and long-run economic development. He has worked on … Macroeconomics Spatial Economics Explore Michael Peters's work Journal Publication Growing Like India—the Unequal … Market Size and Spatial Growth—Evidence From Germany's Post-War Population Expulsions Econometrica (Sep 2022) …
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    Odile Mukiza
    … the Markets and Development Initiative at the Economic Growth Center and a second year MPP candidate at the Yale … Diseases Ghana and Kenya, and children Malnutrition in Rwanda.    Prior to joining Yale, Odile was an economic … the needed institutional and legal frameworks to establish Kigali as an International Financial Center. While at PMO, …
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    Odile Mukiza