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    Economic insights from Postdoctoral scholars: EGC holds this year's first Postdoc Retreat
    … insights from Postdoctoral scholars: EGC holds this year's first Postdoc Retreat … November 6, 2024 | News Economic … insights from Postdoctoral scholars: EGC holds this year's first Postdoc Retreat The October 4 event featured EGC … 4 EGC Postdoctoral Retreat. “Being a postdoc at EGC and IE has been the perfect next step after the PhD, as it's …
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    Presentations at the EGC Postdoctoral retreat
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    Making Pay-As-You-Go Work for Women in Kenya
    … leverage innovative financing platforms to improve women’s access to, and productive use of, digital technology? Research to increase women’s digital inclusion and income generation Mobile phones can … who lack collateral and therefore pose a risk to default on their loans. While recent research  indicates …
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    M-KOPA Agent poster Erik Jorgensen
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    North East Universities Gender Day 2025: Advancing Research on Gender Economics
    … The first theme investigates how policies shape women's reproductive health and and infants’ health outcomes, with … bans on reproductive and infant health, using Texas's 2021 six-week gestational ban as a case study. Following … influence women’s labor force participation. In an RCT in Bihar, he found that women are significantly more likely to …
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    PayDash: Improving digital governance of direct benefit transfers in India
    … to help officials monitor citizen payments in India’s largest social protections scheme. E-governance and … functionalities with MGNREGA implementers in the state of Bihar, and partnering with the Ministry of Rural Development … Inclusion Economics India Centre at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Abdul Latif Jameel …
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    An Inclusion Economics team member showing the PayDash application to a government official in India
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    Development Dialogues: Namrata Kala, Rohini Pande & Catherine Wolfram on financing climate adaptation
    … historical role of high-income countries in creating today’s climate challenges. Not only is there a "moral imperative" … will bear the brunt of climate impacts, often without the financial capacity to cope. "The ability to insulate yourself … directly impact adaptive capacity. "If there's large-scale deforestation, you might actually be impacting …
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    The cover for Development Dialogue episode 1
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    This Transaction is Still Incomplete
    … cards issued since the launch of a bold new plan to grant financial access to the poor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi … numbers but amount to little more than creating computer files and encoding bits of plastic. It is when money starts … and our specific goal is to measure the effect on women’s empowerment. Meanwhile, we have witnessed up close numerous …
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    Peters, Zilibotti, and Fan: How services can drive the growth of emerging economies
    … and hence present a viable development strategy for today’s developing world? In our recent study on service-led growth … in producer services like ICT or the provision of financial services, it is also apparent in traditional … in ICT, consumer services still comprise the lion’s share of its service sector. At first glance, this might …
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    Yale researchers offer new economic perspectives on climate mitigation, adaptation & negotiations
    … security planning. Together, these efforts reflect EGC’s commitment to advancing data-driven, interdisciplinary … Collaborating with regulators, they piloted the world’s first such market in Surat, a large Indian city, requiring … the world's most powerful companies, have fallen short of financial commitments and the narrative of making …
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    The Global Gender Distortions Index Measures Losses in Global Economic Growth
    … How much could an economy grow from improvements in women’s labor market opportunities? Around the world, there are … (Hsieh et al. (2024), Econometrica). But how can today’s low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) evaluate the … market distortions? As part of the Economic Growth Center’s (EGC) Gender and Growth Gaps project—which brings together …
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    Penny Goldberg
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #7: Women in Leadership
    … Economic Growth Center newsletters International Women’s Day is this Saturday, a day to reflect on the history, … the concern that greater gender equity may affect firms’ financial performance. They show that the reduction in gender … on gender inequality: EGC GENDER & GROWTH GAPS PROJECT IE GENDER PORTFOLIO Related News Items News Towards Gender …
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    Amit Khandelwal quoted in Time: "An Obscure Trade Provision May Be Driving U.S. Factory Closures"
    … in Time: "An Obscure Trade Provision May Be Driving U.S. Factory Closures" … March 24, 2025 | In the News Amit … in Time: "An Obscure Trade Provision May Be Driving U.S. Factory Closures" EGC affiliate Amit Khandelwal is quoted … be able to make cheaper goods than those made in the U.S., Khandelwal says. “Domestic producers claim they will …
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    A American flag in the foreground of a shipping port Frederic J. Brown, Time
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    A brief history of EGC
    … a sociologist, but basically we were economists. That’s the arrogance of the field, I guess. There was a lot of … a sociologist, but basically we were economists. That’s the arrogance of the field, I guess. We were always open to … not too much occurred in that regard. We took over Triffin’s IFEA, International Foreign Economic Administration program …
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