After the success of the first conference, the submission link for the second is already open tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba. Submit by Dec 1. Workshop in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026, jointly organised with Rotterdam Global Health Initiative and Erasmus School of Economics.
Closing a fantastic IFS-ADBI-GHE Health Economics in LMICs workshop 🔝A huge thank you to all of you who joined us in London @theifs.bsky.social @papiteide.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social
De vuelta a casa / back home for LACEA-RIDGE at U del Pacifico, Lima, Peru! A pleasure to be part of this community of Peruvian/Latina Economists 💪🏽🇵🇪
Thanks for organizing! Amazing people and papers, with this view ⬇️
👏 Thank you for joining us at the @cepr.org Development Economics Symposium 2025, joint with NovaSBE, NOVAFRICA, @erc.europa.eu!
We had an incredible two days filled with thoughtful discussions and amazing research on development economics.
See you at future NOVAFRICA events!
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🚰 Investigating how exclusion from public services can lead to spillover effects and unintended externalities by @bancalaria.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social
"Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities"
Co-authors: Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, and Maitreesh Ghatak
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📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13
Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows
Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...
To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field.
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Rethinking foreign aid: In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments outside of the US, multilateral institutions, and philanthropists to take the lead on impactful and cost-effective foreign aid. buff.ly/gRYRszI
This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!
IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.
📗Find out more:
Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week.
I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.
Cutting Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GDP means that a massive fraction of our aid budget will be spent in the UK on accommodation for asylum seekers. I don't have an up to date estimate, but could easily be half. Leaves much, much less for "traditional" aid.
Shocking 😢
i just made the mistake of reading the comments on a NYT article on foreign aid.
My god, some people are just way too dumb to understand how lucky they are to have been born in a rich country. Not better or more deserving, just lucky. It's so simple and obvious.
Workshop alert 🚨
Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15!
News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟
ifs.org.uk/events/call-...
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Workshop alert 🚨
Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15!
News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟
ifs.org.uk/events/call-...
Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities.
He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous.
@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...
The claim that only 10% of USAID money reaches its intended beneficiaries is wrong.
@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & @justsand.bsky.social look at where the figure originates, why it doesn’t show what critics claim, & why it offers no pretext for shutting down USAID:
www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...
🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development
Today on VoxDev, Antonella Bancalari (Institute for Fiscal Studies) & Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) outline their research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
🆕 Electronic waste is a silent killer in West Africa
Today on VoxDev, Stefania Lovo and Sam Rawlings (University of Reading) outline evidence from Ghana and Nigeria which shows that e-waste dumping is causing a health crisis: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at: ifs.org.uk/events/call-...
Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at:
ifs.org.uk/events/call-...
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The windfalls spurred growth in sectors beyond those directly serving municipalities, highlighting a multiplier effect.
📈For every $1 municipalities receive as windfalls, roughly $2.79–$3.86 is generated in the local economy.
The windfalls particularly benefitted poorer rural areas, leading to:
🏡Household income and consumption gains.
📉Poverty reduction.
Effects on employment by distance to closes extractive activity (quartiles)
In addition to increases in public employment, we find private-sector improvements in:
✅Employment
✅Earnings and formal employment.
✅Microenterprise activity.
Particularly evident in non-extractive municipalities located farther from extractive activity.
These resource windfalls (known as Canon) increased municipal spending on public infrastructure, boosting local economies through two main channels:
1⃣Hiring low-skilled workers
2⃣Demanding local goods and services