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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Agricultural Policies for Growth is out now!
In this VoxDevLit, Senior Editors Tasso Adamopoulos (@YorkUniversity) & @DiegoRestuccia (@econuoft) review agricultural policies for growth.
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🆕 When bureaucrats secretly pay for public services out of pocket
Today on VoxDev, @ShanAmanRana1 (@UVA), Clement Minaudier (@LondonU) & @sandipz outline research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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Do place-based industrial policies pay off in the long run?
Last week on VoxDev, @StephanHeblich (@econuoft), @marlon_seror (@UQAM) & Yanos Zylberberg (@BristolUni) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/macroeconom…
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Local officials in China work harder on air quality when the target is doomed to fail, but relax their efforts when it is secured early, revealing how minimum standards shape bureaucratic effort when they are also judged on economic growth. voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
ALT How AQI targets create two completion statuses
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Public services in low- and middle-income countries have remained low quality for decades
In this VoxDevLit launch event on September 30th, @claudferraz will review the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services
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📢Call for Applications: Senior Research Fellowships at @FCDOGovUK
Eligibility: Applicants must be at least Associate Professor level of seniority and employed by a UK academic institution
Deadline: September 30th
Learn more: grtd.fcdo.gov.uk/call-for-ap…
@FCDOResearch @GRTDnews
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📢 GiveDirectly's quest for scale
@GiveDirectly are no longer the new kids on the block, and have been scaling their operations rapidly in recent years, a trend that's set to continue.
Caitlin Tulloch joined us on Ideas in Development to discuss: voxdev.org/topic/methods-mea…
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Using India's 4G rollout as a case study, researchers show why industrial policy needs to account for complementarities between linked markets. Restricting low-priced Chinese phones slows network expansion, and leaves Indian firms no better off. voxdev.org/topic/trade/when-…
ALT Effects of a ban on budget Chinese phones
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Evidence from China suggests that big tech investment helps AI startups innovate by easing access to data, with implications for competition: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…
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No taxation without administration: What makes tax authorities work 📢
Last week on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School) & @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) discussed why tax administration design matters for revenue: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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Pairing cash transfers with behaviour change meaningfully improves child nutrition
Last month on VoxDev w/ Kalle Hirvonen (@IFPRI), @leightjessica, @dogilligan, Hiwot Mekonnen Mesfin (@WorldBankGroup), @m_mulford (@NU_GPRL) & Haleluya Tesfaye: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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Local officials in China work harder on air quality when the target is doomed to fail, but relax their efforts when it is secured early, revealing how minimum standards shape bureaucratic effort when they are also judged on economic growth.
ALT How AQI targets create two completion statuses
🆕 How bureaucratic incentives drive the fight against air pollution
Today on VoxDev, Guangyu Cao (@PKU1898), Xi Weng (@PKU_MBA), Mingwei Xu (@HKUniversity) & Li-An Zhou outline research on China: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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This week we featured research on AI, startups, industrial policy and more!
You can read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-develo…
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Public services in low- and middle-income countries have remained low quality for decades
In this VoxDevLit launch event on September 30th, @claudferraz will review the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services
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🆕 How bureaucratic incentives drive the fight against air pollution
Today on VoxDev, Guangyu Cao (@PKU1898), Xi Weng (@PKU_MBA), Mingwei Xu (@HKUniversity) & Li-An Zhou outline research on China: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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Who gets what? Budgets and discretion in community-led social protection targeting
Last week on VoxDev, @KibromAbay (@IFPRI), @GuushBerhane, Daniel Gilligan, @KibromTafere (@WorldBankGroup) & Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse discussed evidence in rural Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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Why workers avoid unfamiliar neighbourhoods – and how one visit can help eliminate fears
Last month on VoxDev, @josh_t_dean (@ChicagoBooth), Gabriel Kreindler (@HarvardEcon) & @o_mbonu (@WorldBankGroup) discussed barriers to job search in Nairobi: voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…
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Evidence from China suggests that big tech investment helps AI startups innovate by easing access to data, with implications for competition.
ALT Innovation gains emerge after investment by large technology firms
🆕 How corporate investors boost AI innovation through data access
Today on VoxDev, Jian Xie (Southern University of Science and Technology) & Kang Zhou (@ZJU_China) outline research on China: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…
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🆕 How corporate investors boost AI innovation through data access
Today on VoxDev, Jian Xie (Southern University of Science and Technology) & Kang Zhou (@ZJU_China) outline research on China: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…
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