In this #VoxDevLit , Guo Xu summarises evidence from economic research on incentives and bureaucrat performance, how bureaucracies can hire the right people, and the importance of assigning bureaucrats to the right tasks.

Read and download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/bure…

🌆💡📈 New research from Craig McIntosh and coauthors reveals the benefits of #PublicInfrastructure investments! Better lighting & paved streets in #Mexico 's neighborhoods help #UrbanLivability but also boost private sector growth. Read more in @Vox_Dev.

voxdev.org/topic/infrastr…

National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon

Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre, Francisco Costa Lerner College & Ben Olken MIT Economics J-PAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

Our VoxDev article on our recently published The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) paper is now live!
'Trade-offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia'
with Pinar Keskin
#EconTwitter

Weekly links May 10, 2024: valuing difficult trade-offs, migration and structural transformation, graphing fine-tuning, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon

Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre, Francisco Costa Lerner College & Ben Olken MIT Economics J-PAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

🆕 WTO accession increased intimate partner violence in Cambodia 🇰🇭

Today on VoxDev, Bilge Erten Northeastern U. & Pinar Keskin Wellesley College document the impacts of WTO accession in 2004 on physical, sexual, and psychological violence against women: voxdev.org/topic/trade/wt…

Hometown conflict & refugees’ integration efforts

Cevat Giray Aksoy The EBRD, Gaurav Khanna GPS UC San Diego, Victoria Marino & Semih Tumen TED Üniversitesi show that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students led to ⬆️ scores in their new Turkish schools: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

'...trade-induced employment changes primarily affect the prevalence of intimate partner violence through shifts in labor market dynamics and intrahousehold bargaining power.'

WTO accession increased intimate partner violence in Cambodia voxdev.org/topic/trade/wt…

🆕 WTO accession increased intimate partner violence in Cambodia 🇰🇭

Today on VoxDev, Bilge Erten Northeastern U. & Pinar Keskin Wellesley College document the impacts of WTO accession in 2004 on physical, sexual, and psychological violence against women: voxdev.org/topic/trade/wt…

🆕 Comparing approaches to breaking the poverty trap by promoting entrepreneurship

Today on VoxDev, Andrew Brudevold-Newman World Bank Research, Maddalena Honorati WB Social Protection, Ipapa Etarukot Univ. of Delaware, Pamela Jakiela Center for Global Development & Owen Ozier Williams Economics outline research in Kenya: voxdev.org/topic/firms/co…

Harnessing technology to boost African agriculture 🌍

Yesterday on #VoxDevTalks , Christopher Udry Northwestern Economics told Tim Phillips how policymakers in #Africa can promote technological progress in #agriculture . Listen here: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

Today's article compares two approaches to breaking the poverty trap in Nairobi - cash grants & a multifaceted entrepreneurship program.

The multifaceted programme had substantial positive impacts on both objective & subjective wellbeing, while the cash grant alone did not.

Cash grants and a multifaceted entrepreneurship programme both had temporary impacts on young women’s income in Nairobi, Kenya.

However, only the more holistic approach led to long-term improvements in wellbeing ⤵️

Happening NOW 👉 Center for Global Development is holding a discussion on IMF' recent report on AI’s impact on the future of work, its effect on labor markets, and more.

Ft: Giovanni Melina, Marina Mendes Tavares, Ajay Shah, Louise Fox, and Shekhar Shah.

LIVE ⬇🔴
bit.ly/4aeem70

VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable

Last month on VoxDev, Anne Brockmeyer World Bank Research, Giulia Mascagni International Centre for Tax and Development, Mazhar Waseem Manchester Economics, Miguel Almunia CUNEF Universidad & Vedanth Nair Institute for Fiscal Studies outlined key takeaways from their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

Today's article compares two approaches to breaking the poverty trap in Nairobi - cash grants & a multifaceted entrepreneurship program.

The multifaceted programme had substantial positive impacts on both objective & subjective wellbeing, while the cash grant alone did not.

Nurturing childhood curiosity to enhance learning 🇹🇷

Last week on VoxDev, Sule Alan (@EUI_EU Bilkent Economics J-PAL CEPR) & Ipek Mumcu (@UofEBusiness) explored the effects of a pedagogical programme in Türkiye that nurtured natural curiosity: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

Cash grants and a multifaceted entrepreneurship programme both had temporary impacts on young women’s income in Nairobi, Kenya.

However, only the more holistic approach led to long-term improvements in wellbeing ⤵️

🆕 Comparing approaches to breaking the poverty trap by promoting entrepreneurship

Today on VoxDev, Andrew Brudevold-Newman World Bank Research, Maddalena Honorati WB Social Protection, Ipapa Etarukot Univ. of Delaware, Pamela Jakiela Center for Global Development & Owen Ozier Williams Economics outline research in Kenya: voxdev.org/topic/firms/co…