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📢Submit your paper and join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings in May📢 1) Development Economics: 7-8 May 24 2) Economic Policy: 9-10 May 24 3) Access to Higher Education: 13 May 24 Submission deadline: 15 Mar 24. All details at baem.info.

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics Summer Institute! The deadline for all NBER Summer Institute submissions is March 21, 2024, and the call for papers is here: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

15 PhD positions in agricultural, food, development, environmental economics ⁦Uni Göttingen⁩ for candidates interested in interdisciplinary research.

Spending a sabbatical in policy helps scientists to identify understudied research areas, communicate their findings to decision makers and translate their knowledge into action. We should create more exchange opportunities 👇 nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

8 travel scholarships - please forward to scientists working on psychosomatic and social medicine in low- and middle-income countries (asking for a friend).

I made this new chart showing that more and more countries decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions. (Source: ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenh…)

Our new #VoxDevLit outlines evidence on the quantity and quality of infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries. Read and download MarcoGonzalezNavarro and Roman David Zarate's living literature review here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/land…

Great end of the week. Got hot off the press book by ⁦@dario_meili⁩ on my desk. Must read for researchers working on intersectional inequalities. Free version here: research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.…

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Whatever poverty line is chosen, poverty has fallen, but the majority of the world's population still lives in poverty. A must-read article in the The New York Times by Max Roser, arguing for an international poverty line of $30 per day:

We, development economics at ⁦ETH Zurich⁩, are looking for a new RA starting January 2025. If interested, please apply by 15th of October here: dec.ethz.ch/about-us/open-…

Apply for two postdoctoral fellowships in economics for researchers from low- and middle-income countries Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)

As I have just shared two new positions on development economics, important reflections (and projections?) by Ravi Kanbur on "The end of development economics" cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… via CEPR