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New survey findings on vaccine acceptance in developing …

WEBThe survey responses revealed notably different attitudes toward the Covid-19 vaccine between wealthy and less wealthy nations, with 80.3% of people in LMICs expressing willingness to get the vaccine when available. Just 64.6% percent of Americans and …

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How Marsha Goldfarb established a place for women in …

WEBSeptember 24, 2020. Had Marsha Goldfarb’s summer internship in 1966 gone as expected, she might never have become Yale’s first female economics professor. Goldfarb at a museum in Santiago, Chile in the summer of 1970. She completed her thesis research …

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Gaps in health equity: Insights from history, lessons from …

WEBEvent Details Gaps in health equity: Insights from history, lessons from Covid-19, and ideas for the future – the tenth in the series, "The Yale Development Dialogues: Economic Policy Lessons from History" Hosts: Yale Economic Growth Center, the Department of History, …

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Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition

WEBThe Research and Evidence for Nepal's Transition (RENT) program is building a practical evidence base on what works to enable more inclusive economic development. People waiting in line to vote. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. After decades of civil war and …

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Saxena & Shukla: Improving Markets to Unlock Growth …

WEBPlease join us for the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development conference, co-hosted by EGC and the International Growth Centre (IGC) on October 19-20, 2023. This event will take place in-person, simultaneously at Yale University and at LSE. Presentations will be …

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Covid-19 in low-income countries Yale Economic Growth …

WEBPenny Goldberg is working on appropriate public health policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis for developing countries. She is organizing data collection to facilitate analysis of short- and medium-term impacts of the crisis on those employed in the informal sector in …

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Attanasio et al.: "Lively Minds: improving health and …

WEBAbstract Many children in developing countries grow up in environments that lack stimulation, leading to deficiencies in early years of development. Several efficacy trials of early childhood care and education (ECCE) programmes have demonstrated potential to …

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New findings on the effects of widespread arsenic …

WEBIdentifying the Costs of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh EGC Research Summary, December 2020 The contamination of groundwater by arsenic in Bangladesh is the largest poisoning of a population in history. …

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Kaivan Munshi changes lanes to work at the intersection …

WEBEGC Affiliate Spotlight: Kaivan Munshi. by Vestal McIntyre February 1, 2022. Two facts have puzzled scientists in recent decades: the high incidence of diabetes and other metabolic diseases in normal-weight individuals in developing countries, and the fact …

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Rosenzweig et al., 2021: "Identifying the Costs of a Public …

WEBAbstract We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic …

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Pande and coauthors: New data on India's migrant workers and …

WEBBy Jenna Allard, Nils Enevoldsen, Maulik Jagnani, Charity Troyer Moore, Yusuf Neggers, Rohini Pande, and Simone Schaner. April 28, 2021. A ferocious second wave of coronavirus infections has hit India, prompting a new round of localized lockdowns. Last …

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Closing the Digital Gender Divide to Expand Women’s Economic

WEBResearch to increase women’s economic engagement Particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic began, digital technology has enabled crucial access to information, markets, and services relating to improving health. As a result, expanding mobile access is necessary …

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Mobarak & Miguel, 2022: "The Economics of the COVID-19

WEBAbstract The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the …

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Unequal treatment of men and women by economic law: Global trends

WEBFact #1: A woman in the average country has three quarters the rights of a man. In 2019, the global average of WBL scores was 75.2 unweighted and 74.4 when weighted by population, meaning the average woman receives only three quarters the legal rights as her male counterpart. As expected, this statistic varies widely by region, with a

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Rethinking Nepal's local health infrastructure in light of Covid-19

WEBCentral to Covid-19 response strategy are government actions to contain and mitigate the spread of the disease. These public health actions are ratified by Nepal’s 2015 Constitution as a shared responsibility between different. spheres of government. While primary …

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Looking back on the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Economic Justice

WEBA forum for new research on the human and economy-wide costs of discrimination by Ceren Baysan and Yusuf Neggers December 21, 2021 In her influential 2020 book Caste, Isabel Wilkerson relates the social stratification system in India with …

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Local Government Health Capacity and Nepal’s Covid-19 …

WEBwww.egc.yale.edu Local Government Health Capacity and Nepal’s Covid -19 Response | 2 To understand the variation in testing and tracing activities by local governments, we consider two factors. First, municipality Covid burden measured by Covid cases at …

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The North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) …

WEBNEUDC 2022 Conference Photo by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan The North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) annual conference was held in-person and hosted by the Economic Growth Center at Yale University in New Haven, CT. Sessions ran all day …

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