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    Nancy Folbre: Why we should all care more about the care economy
    … economy, about the need to integrate our analysis of how people seek to earn a living and care for their families – … of those findings into ordinary language for ordinary people,” she said at a recent event with the Salus Populi … at Yale. “This stuff is pretty much common sense for most people – so I’m hopeful.”  Moreover, progress is not limited …
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    Nancy Folbre at IAFFE conference 2018
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    Mark Rosenzweig reappointed as Director of Economic Growth Center
    … is: “How come India isn’t like California?” Its people are just as smart. It’s a democracy. So what are the … are health and education low? Is it access? Is it because people underestimate their value? It’s easy to come up with … response rate? Our response would be somewhere around 90%. People enjoy telling you about their stuff. I’ve surveyed a …
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    How the microcredit contract can allow borrowers to share risk
    … an intense debate about whether microcredit can lift people out of poverty. Experimental evidence from a variety … households. One explanation may be that relatively few people take up microcredit when it is made available to them, … are ex ante tailored to individual needs  may affect how people use microcredit and the impacts it has on various …
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    Going the Last Mile (with Evidence)
    … investigated what it takes to get the vaccine to more people in the developing world. The short answer? Nurses on … the importance of “bringing services closer to the people.” And yet as measured by a dismally expansive variety … As a development economist, he explores ways to influence people in developing countries to adopt technologies or …
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    A motorbike in Sierra Leone
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    EGC Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2022
    … the mutual sharing of knowledge, data, resources, and people with the countries themselves.  The Center itself grew … funded cohorts of two to spend two years – four fellows in residence at one time – in research at Yale. At a … to the Yale Economics community. Some Rockefeller Fellows returned to their home countries after their period …
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    Professors and International students on the steps of EGC in the 90s.
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    Eli Fenichel
    … resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural … resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural … resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural …
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    Eli Fenichel