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New survey findings on vaccine acceptance in developing nations
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 30.4% of Russians said the same. To Mobarak, the high levels of acceptance in LMICs suggest
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Time to reimagine sustainable development
WEBTime to reimagine sustainable development? On the eve of the UN General Assembly. The 8th Yale Development Dialogue will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals — the blueprint for global development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 — and new ideas in health, social protection, and poverty reduction.
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 on the Chilean economy while studying at Northwestern. Photo courtesy Marsha Goldfarb.
Gaps in health equity: Insights from history, lessons from Covid-19
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, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Date and time: Thursday, October 28, 2021, …
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 district level, number of returnee migrants, and
Rosenzweig et al., 2021: "Identifying the Costs of a Public Health
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 poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time estimates of the effects of the ingestion and …
Attanasio et al.: "Lively Minds: improving health and development
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 improve child development; evidence on whether these effects can be sustained once …
New findings on the effects of widespread arsenic poisoning in
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. While its health effects have been widely studied, the economic impacts had not been …
Covid-19 in low-income countries Yale Economic Growth Center
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 these countries, particularly women. Her latest research finds some reasons
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 for low- and middle-income countries to navigate recovery from the pandemic and allocate …
Mobarak et al., 2023: "The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on …
WEBAbstract We track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in eight Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa, and South America utilizing repeated surveys of 21,162 individuals. Many respondents were interviewed over multiple rounds pre- and post-pandemic, allowing us to control for time trends and within-year seasonal …
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 political turmoil, Nepal ratified a new federal constitution in 2015.
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 healthcare and sanitation are exclusive functions of local governments,
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 equivalent hierarchies in other contexts, from the current-day United States to Nazi Germany. She writes:
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 year’s restrictions devastated the lives and livelihoods of poor migrant workers, leading
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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 pandemic is likely to have different consequences for LMICs and demands distinct policy …
Unequal treatment of men and women by economic law: Global …
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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