BasisPointInsight.com - When Credit Scores Gatekeep, India Must Regulate Bureaus As Utilities by R. Gurumurthy Once neutral data pipes, credit bureaus now decide who gets to borrow, build or belong. India must regulate them as public utilities before exclusion hardens. by R. Gurumurthy, BasisPointInsight.com

Once neutral data pipes, credit bureaus now decide who gets to borrow, build or belong. India must regulate them as public utilities before exclusion hardens.

Read R Gurumurthy’s column for BasisPoint👇

#Budget2026 #BPIBudget2026 #CreditBureaus #FinancialGovernance #DataPower #InclusionEconomics

Rooted in Community: Understanding Meghalaya’s Green Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Program Yale Inclusion Economics intern Austin Bodetti accompanies researchers investigating Meghalaya's payment for ecosystem services (PES) program aimed at preventing deforestation.

🌳 What matters for Meghalaya’s forest conservation?

🍃 Yale #InclusionEconomics intern Austin Bodetti accompanied researchers investigating Meghalaya's payment for ecosystem services (PES) program aimed at preventing deforestation.

📚 Read the newest Perspectives article: ie.yale.edu/news/251117/...

Yale researchers offer new economic perspectives on climate mitigation, adaptation & negotiations

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌍

How can economic tools help address climate change equitably?

Read about how researchers at @yale.edu EGC, #InclusionEconomics & @yaleeconomics.bsky.social are piloting pollution markets, rethinking offsets, modeling adaptation & more:
egc.yale.edu/news/250416/...

In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development How can early childhood investments change the course of lives in lower-income countries? Meghir, a faculty affiliate of EGC and Inclusion Economics, and Hasan, a World Bank economist, share insights ...

🚼 How can early childhood investments transform lives in lower-income countries? What role can research + policy play?

"In Conversation" w/ Costas Meghir (EGC, @yaleeconomics.bsky.social #InclusionEconomics) + 🌍 Amer Hasan #WorldBank on #ECD in 🇨🇴🇮🇳🇮🇩🇰🇪🇵🇰

🔗 egc.yale.edu/news/250602/...
#GlobalDev

Director of Communications - Economic Growth Center

🌍 Join EGC & #InclusionEconomics and shape the #GlobalDev conversation!

We’re #hiring Director of Comms to:
▶️ Build our brand
▶️ Lead outreach
▶️ Engage funders
▶️ Collaborate across @yale.edu @yalemacmillan.bsky.social @yaleeconomics.bsky.social @ispsyale.bsky.social

🔗 egc.yale.edu/opportunitie...

🎓 Congrats to the Class of '25!

Today EGC & #InclusionEconomics celebrated:
📘 @yaleeconomics.bsky.social PhDs (dev, trade, econ history)
📊 #YaleIDE Master’s grads
📈 Predocs
💼 Undergrad interns & Salus Populi Foundation members

So proud of you all!
Read more: egc.yale.edu/news/250519/...

🎉 I’ve started a new role as Comms Director at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs! Grateful for 5+ years w the @yaleegc.bsky.social & #InclusionEconomics team (pictured) & and glad I’m just up the street so we can keep collaborating.

Excited to share Jackson stories – and get them on BlueSky!

🗣️ “Childcare changes the rules of the game”

🌍 The Yale Economic Growth Center and Yale #InclusionEconomics, in collaboration with the Yale MacMillan Center and the Gates Foundation, hosted a research-policy dialogue on May 7

Costas Meghir on the economics of early childhood development How early in a child’s life should interventions take place to ensure the best long-term outcomes? And how can such interventions be scaled to reach the widest number of children possible? Costas Megh...

🧑‍🎓 “Economics is the ultimate egalitarian science, it views all people in exactly the same way – just facing different constraints”

💡 Costas Meghir (EGC & #InclusionEconomics) discusses how economics can improve outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries: egc.yale.edu/research/cos...

North East Universities Gender Day 2025: Advancing Research on Gender Economics On April 3, 2025 we launched the first North East Universities Gender and Development (NEUGD) Conference, bringing together early-career and senior scholars from universities in the northeast United S...

👥 How do we understand the economics of gender?

🗣️ EGC and #InclusionEconomics hosted #NEUGD, a conference to provide a forum for economists in the northeastern United States to explore the role of gender in the economy.

📚 Read the event recap:
egc.yale.edu/news/250506/...

Geospatial Data Scientist Consultant - Yale Inclusion Economics

📣 Job Alert 📣

#InclusionEconomics is seeking a full-time Geospatial Data Scientist Consultant to enhance the reach and impact of flood early-warning systems.

This opportunity is for a 3-month term, with a target start date of June 1.

Learn more and apply:
ie.yale.edu/opportunitie...

"My job at @nytimes.com is to try to understand our species' collective effort to address #ClimateChange."

Max Bearak introduces his talk at Yale MacMillan Center in an even hosted by EGC, #InclusionEconomics & the Poynter Fellowship.

Join the livestream now:
yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...