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    Development Dialogues: Are vocational training programs effective?
    … dig into the evidence on vocational training programs in low- and middle-income countries: Are we expecting too … countries – but often they fall short. In the fourth in our series of Development Dialogues , we examine the real … methods to investigate how to make labor markets work better for the poor. Caria served as senior editor for a …
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    The cover for Development Dialogue episode 4
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    Pande and Coauthors: Impersonal Government is Good
    … by C R Sasikumar) T his article first appeared in The Indian Express on December 30, 2015. India’s RTI Act, … skills of their staff. The government can also improve its digital services, especially website speed, by increasing the … policymakers, researchers and technicians from the get go. Our team at Evidence for Policy Design has created a method …
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    Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later
    … Pande and coauthors in Indian Express: Food first, cash later … May 11, 2020 | … A large percentage of poor women in India lack access to digital bank transfers and ration cards, according to data … poor? Cash is easy to carry and widely accepted. But, our analysis of nationally representative survey data, …
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    Given the implications of the lockdown for those living hand-to-mouth, there is simply no time to screen and document poor, uncovered households. C R Sasikumar/File
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    Understanding Barriers to Women’s Mobile Use in Low-Income Settings
    … Understanding Barriers to Women’s Mobile Use in Low-Income Settings … PS Danwar, Photoshare Understanding … Use in Low-Income Settings What policies can close India's digital gender gap, and what does this mean for women’s … In a subset of villages where SKY had been implemented, our team of Inclusion Economics researchers asked “would …
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    Three women using mobile
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    The Benefits of Financial Autonomy for India's Rural Women
    … The Benefits of Financial Autonomy for India's Rural Women In an interview with Melinda Gates, Rohini Pande describes her work on how access to financial services affects women's work … working less? Rohini:  One important reason—and one that our research focuses on—is social norms that block women’s …
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    Image of the hands of two women who are sitting. EPoD Harvard Flickr
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    To Cut Delhi’s Air Pollution, Pinpoint The Source
    … Delhi’s air pollution. The just-concluded odd-even scheme in the city required motorists to find alternative means of … fires  in Punjab and Haryana, and dust from construction sites to name just a few. Without a better knowledge of the … IndiaSpend #Breathe . This could be a turning point in our understanding of the sources of Delhi’s deadly air, as …
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    Smoggy polluted highway Arrush Chopra, Shutterstock
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    Akash Uppal
    … inclusion, and economic development. Previously, he worked in the International Economic Analysis department of the Bank … statistical software, and econometric methods to enhance our understanding of the world.  – Akash Uppal Akash Uppal … … statistical software, and econometric methods to enhance our understanding of the world.  – Akash Uppal … Akash Uppal …
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    Akash Uppal
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    Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador
    … Are cryptocurrencies currencies? Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador … January 29, 2024 | Perspectives Are … Their study provides lessons to countries aiming to adopt digital currencies. El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as an … Rica , where Van Patten grew up, plan to continue their work in this area. Argente says he is fascinated by the study …
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    Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits
    … Rohini Pande in Science Magazine: Fixing forest carbon credits … January … they can argue for. We know that this is possible; in  our paper  on pollution audits in Gujarat, we conducted a … with advantages in the offset market. This approach cannot work. On the contrary, it’s critical to have one universal …
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Summer 2025
    … to receive EGC's quarterly newsletter Celebrating Our Graduates Today we congratulate a diverse group of Yale … at different levels, who are moving on to the next steps in their lives and careers: our graduating economics PhD … interns who have contributed to many areas of our work.  The Economic Growth Center community congratulates …
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    4 graduates on the steps of the Yale Economics Building. Brittany Ladd
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    Clare Kemmerer
    … Intern 2021-22 as she pursued a Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.) in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, … Economic History program. She has really helped build our portfolio of articles, and we'll miss her a lot! – … Economic History program. She has really helped build our portfolio of articles, and we'll miss her a lot! – …
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    Clare Kemmerer
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    Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore in Hindustan Times: On Her Own Account: Impact of Strengthening Women's Financial Control
    … a similar level of development with its low rate of women in the workforce – an obstacle to economic growth as well as … autonomy. The share of women working or looking for work fell from 32 percent in 2005 to 21 percent in 2019. The … Conservative social and cultural attitudes around women’s work could be one of the reasons behind the poor …
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    Workers
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    Towards Gender Equality Newsletter Issue #3: Laws and Gender Equality
    … and on the eve of independence from British colonial rule in India – the status of women in my home country was … gender equality interact and evolve. In this issue of our newsletter, we highlight a number of emerging insights on … show how intra-household responses to gender reforms can work to offset progress on legal equality for women. Daher, …
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