NREGA and rural welfare in India
In the evaluation of social programs, the first order concern is their effect on beneficiaries. However, there is a growing awareness about “spillovers” or “peer effects”, which could affect...
View ArticleCSAE Conference Plenary: The Millennium Development Goals – Beyond 2015.
The final plenary of the CSAE conference, chaired by Prof. Paul Collier, brought together Prof. James Foster (Institute for International Economic Policy at the Elliott School for International...
View ArticleFormal savings access and informal financial transactions
Social networks and the analysis of peer effects are a current hot topic across academic disciplines. The idea that a structure beyond our own direct scope and understanding, i.e. the social network we...
View ArticleThe reverse couch potato effect: the impact of inspirational movies on...
Documentary screening, iiG Programme (DFID funded) (Owner: Kate Orkin) – Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).Link to Licence:...
View ArticleWorld Development Report 2014: a missed opportunity?
The World Development Report is the flagship statement by the World Bank on development for the upcoming year. As someone who spends a considerable amount of time working on risk and insurance in...
View ArticleA loan shark in sheep’s clothing? Is commercialization of microfinance bad...
After years of positive media attention and a Nobel Peace Prize for Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, it’s been hard to miss the recent controversy surrounding the microfinance industry. Critical media...
View ArticleEarly life circumstances affect later-life mental health in Ghana
The economic losses due to mental health disorders in low-income countries are staggeringly large. Depression alone generates an estimated loss of 55.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in...
View ArticleCommunity-Based Development initiatives: Who in the village hears about them...
Community-based development programmes, known for placing greater control of resources and decision-making in local hands, have long been an important part of development policy. But these programmes...
View ArticleUniversal access to HIV treatment: fiscal sustainability and incentives.
Before the advent of anti-retroviral therapies in the nineties, being infected by the HIV virus was equivalent to a death sentence. Now, thanks to remarkable advances in medical research, people who...
View ArticleEthics in Development Economics
On 3rd Nov we had a seminar presentation by Johannes Haushofer on a RCT in Kenya. In this experiment, some households in villages is Western Kenya were given unconditional cash transfers of either...
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