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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, September 2020
    … to receive EGC's quarterly newsletter Enabling Inclusion: Women in economics, and economics in women’s lives This … contributions in economic development and economic history. To do so, she broke through many barriers facing … Research Working Paper (Sep 2020) Related News Items EGC History “Strength of Will”: How Cynthia Taft Morris’s career …
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    Hartmann (second from right) and members of New Haven Women’s Liberation demonstrate outside Mory's Association, which barred women's entry, in 1971.
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    Strengthening Female Representation in Nepal’s Local Governments
    … Post", Rohini Pande and coauthors explain research showing women’s underrepresentation in leadership positions in Nepal … candidate selection process. Sadhanadevi Nepal made history as Nepal’s first democratically-elected local … that women will advance. Experience from countries with a history of gender quotas in politics shows that it is …
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    Villagers in Nepal (Vestal)
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    Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking
    … India . Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking … September 13, 2017 | In the News Times of India covers Rohini Pande's research on women and banking Rohini Pande's research found that women who received wages in their own bank accounts worked …
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: “Identity politics” is economic policy
    … terms of ensuring equal rights for minorities and women in the workplace and in the world and in terms of … autonomy and appropriate health care for millions of women. In 2023, the court partially reversed a precedent … higher risk  of deep poverty. Globally, on average, women earn  20% less than men . Disability is commonly linked …
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    Brussels, Belgium. 21st February 2019. High school and university students stage a protest against the climate policies of the Belgian government. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis Alexandros Michailidis, Shutterstock
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2025
    … IDE Director Michael Boozer spoke about the program's history. Read the transcript of his speech How an Early … approach to training development economists. Read the EGC History article   In Conversation A new series featuring Yale … the Class of 2025, their achievements and future plans EGC History IDE Director Mike Boozer reflects on the 70th …
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    4 graduates on the steps of the Yale Economics Building. Brittany Ladd
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #5: Gender and Entrepreneurship
    … the prevailing wisdom in development economics was that women-owned microenterprises generated no returns to … among female-run enterprises reflects the fact that women's capital is typically invested into their husband's … We highlight a forthcoming paper that illuminates how women-led enterprise activity relates to women’s employment …
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    A graph showing the percent of firms with women among principal owners
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    Pande and coauthors: Empowering women through direct digital payments
    … of the MacMillan Center, and coauthors shows that giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control … range of benefits. Pande and coauthors: Empowering women through direct digital payments … Rohini Pande … … of the MacMillan Center, and coauthors shows that giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control …
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    Rohini Pande in The Kathmandu Post: Strengthening female representation
    … , Binod Paudel & Satish Wasti Sadhana Devi Pradhan made history as Nepal’s first democratically-elected local … after the end of the Rana dynasty. Since then, Nepali women have only seen very modest gains in Nepali politics. In 1992, only one in 200 elected representatives were women. More significant gains came in 1997 when women won 21 …
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    Women in Nepal
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    Yale EGC Economic History Workshop
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    Looking back on the "Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia" research and policy workshop
    … 3, 2023, in Bengaluru, India, to discuss steps to allow women greater access to the opportunities and benefits of … organizations, private companies and more to discuss women’s economic participation and returns in South Asia and … force participation for women after marriage. Using a Life History Calendar approach, she and her co-authors find that …
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    Scholars sit and discuss at workshop. Ritesh