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Development economics, research to practice @bjorkmanmartina M Callen @cesicruz @LagakosDavid J Naritomi @oliverhanney @emaansiddique @cepr_org @The_IGC PEDL

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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on the Political Economy of Public Service Delivery is out now! In this VoxDevLit, Senior Editor @claudferraz (@ubcVSE) reviews the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/politic…
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Can service-led growth replace factory-led development? 📢 Last week on VoxDevTalks, Michael Peters (@YaleEconomics) discussed why developing economies bypass factories as workers move to services, and what this means for inequality: voxdev.org/topic/macroeconom…
Can service-led growth replace factory-led development?

Can service-led growth replace factory-led development?

Many of today’s fastest-growing developing economies, from India to Kenya, have bypassed industrialisation, with workers moving straight from farms into non-tradable consumer services. New structural...

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Thrilled to see my study on cash transfers and women's employment featuring in @vox_dev! In the paper, I show that Bolsa Família, Brazil's main transfer programme, increases mother's employment, and the effect is complemented by better local services👇 voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
Cash transfers raise women’s employment when public services are bettter

Cash transfers raise women’s employment when public services are bettter

In Brazil, a large unconditional cash transfer made mothers of young children more likely to find formal work by helping them send their children to school, with the biggest gains where local...

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Transmission losses drive electricity productivity gaps 📢 Last month on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, @martinsyshu (@CUHKofficial) discussed why electricity productivity is closer to the global frontier than expected: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
Transmission losses drive electricity productivity gaps

Transmission losses drive electricity productivity gaps

Productivity in the electricity sector of low-income countries is far closer to the global frontier than economy-wide productivity, and because power is a strong complement to other inputs, raising...

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Can economic inclusion reduce prejudice against disability? Last week on VoxDev, @KipkechElijah (@Bigd_BracU) outlined evidence on destigmatising disabilities in Uganda: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
Can economic inclusion reduce prejudice against disability?

Can economic inclusion reduce prejudice against disability?

In Uganda, a disability-inclusive anti-poverty programme helped people with disabilities move from insecure casual work into farming, but it did not reduce prejudice against them, and on one measure...

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Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires Last week on VoxDev, Clare Balboni (@LSEEcon), Robin Burgess & Benjamin Olken (@MITEcon) outlined research on Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires

Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires

Indonesian firms burn more forest land when the fire spread risk falls on unclaimed land. Clearer property rights and credible penalties could cut fires by half.

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🆕 Cash transfers raise women’s employment when public services are bettter Today on VoxDev, @LeiteMariante (@CUNEF) outlines evidence on the world’s largest cash transfer programme, Bolsa Família in Brazil: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
Cash transfers raise women’s employment when public services are bettter

Cash transfers raise women’s employment when public services are bettter

In Brazil, a large unconditional cash transfer made mothers of young children more likely to find formal work by helping them send their children to school, with the biggest gains where local...

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Why democracy alone does not build effective states 📢 Last week on VoxDevTalks, Tim Besley (@LSEEcon) discussed why state capacity is a political problem first, and how three persistent development clusters form – but can be escaped: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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🆕 Who enters politics?📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Katherine Casey (@StanfordGSB) & Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC) discuss how voters are less sure about politicians democracy puts in charge and the experiments to fix this problem: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
Who enters politics?

Who enters politics?

How can we improve the politician pipeline?

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What makes supply chains resilient? Evidence from India's COVID-19 lockdowns Last week on VoxDev, Gaurav Khanna (@UCSanDiego), Nicolas Morales (@RichmondFed) & @nityanayar (@UTAustinEcon) outlined research on supplier exposure to COVID-19 lockdowns: voxdev.org/topic/macroeconom…
What makes supply chains resilient? Evidence from India's COVID-19 lockdowns

What makes supply chains resilient? Evidence from India's COVID-19 lockdowns

Supply chains built on complex inputs and large, well-connected suppliers held up through India's 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. Firms buying easily replaced inputs were far quicker to cut supplier links.

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Critical minerals scramble: Turning a windfall into development 📢 Last month on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Christopher Adam (@ODID_QEH) discussed why the critical minerals windfall may be short-lived, and how producer countries can capture its gains: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality Last month on VoxDev, Jin Feng (@FudanUniversity), Yuting Li (@SCUCN) & Yu Liu (Fudan University) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/firms/how-f…
How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality

How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality

Stronger collection of social insurance contributions in China reduced formal firm entry and shifted workers towards informal jobs.

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🆕 Can forest management plans make industrial logging more sustainable? Today on VoxDev w/ Kenneth Houngbedji (@ird_fr), Marc Bouvier (@ONG_nitidae), Antoine Leblois (@INRAE_France), Jean-Sylvestre Makak (Geospatial Company) & Benoît Mertens: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
Can forest management plans make industrial logging more sustainable?

Can forest management plans make industrial logging more sustainable?

Evidence from logging concessions across five Congo Basin countries shows that forest management plan validation reduces annual forest loss by nearly half. The benefits emerge gradually, underscoring...

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Can role models uplift marginalised communities? Last month on VoxDev, Gaia Narciso (@tcdeconomics), Carol Newman & @FinnsAngle (@uni_copenhagen) outlined research on Vietnam: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
Can role models uplift marginalised communities?

Can role models uplift marginalised communities?

In Vietnam, a low-cost video intervention featuring successful entrepreneurs briefly raised ethnic minority farmers' belief in their own agency. However, it did not raise household incomes, and for...

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Our @vox_dev Lit Review on Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Populations is out! A few lessons from the review that are policy relevant: 1- Employ a clear definition of self-reliance: One potential alternative is to define it based on the position of the household relative to the local poverty line. 2- Integrate cost-effectiveness assessments in impact evaluations: consider the relative cost of the interventions and their sustainability in the medium and long run. 3-Integrate forcibly displaced populations into the existing social protection national systems. 4- The right to work and access to markets are the most promising policies to support self-reliance: they enable these populations to find their own economic opportunities, independent of humanitarian aid. 5-Invest in mental health and social cohesion: Development programs that support displaced communities should think holistically about how to (a) address trauma and mental health and (b) foster trust and collaboration between host and refugee populations.
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📢 Issue 2 of our VoxDevLit on Refugees & Other Forcibly Displaced Populations is out now! Senior Editor @svrozo (@WorldBankGroup) & Guy Grossman (@PoliticsAtPenn) summarise evidence on forced displacement and host communities. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/refugee…
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📢 Issue 2 of our VoxDevLit on Refugees & Other Forcibly Displaced Populations is out now! Senior Editor @svrozo (@WorldBankGroup) & Guy Grossman (@PoliticsAtPenn) summarise evidence on forced displacement and host communities. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/refugee…
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📢 Issue 2 of our VoxDevLit on Refugees & Other Forcibly Displaced Populations is out now! Senior Editor @svrozo (@WorldBankGroup) & Guy Grossman (@PoliticsAtPenn) summarise evidence on forced displacement and host communities. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/refugee…
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How returning Indigenous land empowers communities without guaranteeing environmental benefits Last week on VoxDev, @djaimovi (@fenutalca), Felipe Jordán (@IE_UC), Matías Black (NeuralWorks) & @econ_servation (@ucsantabarbara) outlined research on Chile: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
How returning Indigenous land empowers communities without guaranteeing environmental benefits

How returning Indigenous land empowers communities without guaranteeing environmental benefits

In Chile, returning ancestral land to Mapuche communities led them to replace commercial pine and eucalyptus plantations with grasslands for livestock, but it brought no measurable gains in carbon...

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Can we detect when a country's institutions are about to change? Last month on VoxDev w/ Michael Callen (@LSEEcon), Gregory Levy (@OxfordEconDept), Saipremnath Muthukumaran, @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) & Noam Yuchtman: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
Can we detect when a country's institutions are about to change?

Can we detect when a country's institutions are about to change?

Using AI to analyse 120 years of newspaper coverage produces a new index of uncertainty about a country's core institutions, and in the countries studied, nearly every major shift in democracy...

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Why do so many people in poor countries work in small firms? Last week on VoxDev, Anil Jain (@federalreserve) & Siddharth Kothari (@IMFAsiaPacific) outlined research on manufacturing employment in India: voxdev.org/topic/macroeconom…
Why do so many people in poor countries work in small firms?

Why do so many people in poor countries work in small firms?

In India, most manufacturing workers are in small firms partly because most customers can only afford cheap, low-quality goods that small workshops make efficiently, and this explains up to around...

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Ocean acidification is raising newborn deaths in coastal communities Last month on VoxDev, @ARMANDalex (@NovaSBE) & @IvanKimT (@unav) discussed ocean acidification in LMICs: voxdev.org/topic/health/ocea…
Ocean acidification is raising newborn deaths in coastal communities

Ocean acidification is raising newborn deaths in coastal communities

Rising ocean acidity cuts small-scale fish catches, pushes up seafood prices and worsens women's nutrition, increasing neonatal mortality in coastal communities of low- and middle-income countries by...

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