#trendingonVoxDev 'Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981' voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

🆕 The global learning crisis

Yesterday on #VoxDevTalks , Robert Jenkins (@UNICEF UNICEF Education) talked to Tim Phillips about tackling the global learning crisis by transforming education systems. Listen here: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

If you go to college in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC), how does it help you, and what do you get from it? CID collaborator and Georgetown University professor Jishnu Das shares his thoughts in a recent VoxDev podcast. #Education #DevelopmentEconomics
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🗞️The Spring 2024 EGC Newsletter is out!🗞️

▶️Learn about new projects in sub–Saharan Africa
▶️Watch the #Kuznets2024 lecture with Christopher Udry
▶️Listen to the new #VoicesInDevelopment podcast episodes
▶️Read EGC Affiliate Spotlights: Sagar Saxena David Argente
egc.yale.edu/egc-quarterly-…

We found that a public health program in Mozambique inadvertently reduced HIV testing rates, but simple household informational interventions offset those negative effects, bringing HIV testing back up. Read a nontechnical summary in our new VoxDev piece!

We discovered that a public health initiative in Mozambique unintentionally led to lower HIV testing rates. Fortunately, straightforward informational nudges at the household can counter this decline. Check out a summary in a latest VoxDev article!

🆕 Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique 🇲🇿

Today on VoxDev, Dean Yang @UMichEcon @FordSchool, James Allen IV IFPRI, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV University of Michigan Medical School and Hang Yu Peking University outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

Affirmative action in Brazil’s higher education system 🇧🇷

Last month on VoxDev, Rodrigo Oliveira 🕊 UNU-WIDER, Alei Santos FGV EESP & Edson Severnini Heinz College at CMU Carnegie Mellon University brought new evidence to a global debate dominated by US data & opinion. Read ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

Wrote an op-ed about migration policy in Sri Lanka for the DailyMirror. Draws on findings from several papers including those with colleagues and students at Notre Dame Economics, Kellogg Institute , Verité Research, and BIG Lab. Version with links is here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/csfaorh…

A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme’s adverse effects ⤵️

Interesting and important discussion on the Yale Economic Growth Center #podcast .

Why is it crucial to build in-country partnerships? How can these partnerships be built? How does this form of collaboration lead to impact?

Listen here ⤵️

Getting good politicians into politics

Last week on VoxDev, Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار (@PUPolitics Princeton School of Public & International Affairs) & Yasir Khan (@PittTweet) explored the impacts of encouraging ordinary citizens to run for office in Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme’s adverse effects ⤵️

#trendingonVoxDev 'Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981' voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

Foundational learning is critical in tackling the global learning crisis.

What progress have countries made and what challenges lie ahead?

Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Global Director, Education and Adolescent Development, talks to VoxDev. Tune in now: bit.ly/3JkXxwn

🆕 Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique 🇲🇿

Today on VoxDev, Dean Yang @UMichEcon @FordSchool, James Allen IV IFPRI, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV University of Michigan Medical School and Hang Yu Peking University outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

Can “redistributing the gains” build support for policies that raise aggregate welfare?

We find that, indeed, Ugandans increase support for hosting refugees when they see some of the benefits directly

Check out our piece in VoxDev!👇

Paper: tinyurl.com/mw9y3dmr

Who should select political candidates, the people or the party?

Last month on VoxDev, Abou Bakarr Kamara International Growth Centre & Niccolò Meriggi CSAE Department of Economics, Oxford discussed which systems of leadership selection are most effective with Tim Phillips ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/institut…

In September 2022, António Guterres convened the Transforming Education Summit by saying that education is “beset by inequalities and struggling to adjust to the needs of the 21st century”.

Today's podcast looks at how policymakers can tackle the global learning crisis ⤵️

Today's article assesses whether an approach which allows refugees labour market access, and redistributes to host populations some of the resulting savings in foreign aid or public finance, generates the necessary political support.

Read more on new research in Uganda ⤵️