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On July 9-10, join CGD experts for the World Bank & Center for Global Development Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics as they tackle critical challenges the world is facing. 🌟Ft: Rachel Glennerster, Lawrence H. Summers, @MasoodCGD, Kehinde Ajayi, @eeshani_kandpal, & Thomas Ginn. RSVP: bit.ly/4aRjUo8

Please RT: I'm very excited to launch Malengo Inc.'s new Kenya–Germany Vocational Training Program for Refugees! We provide one year of intensive language training in Kenya, followed by 1–3 years of vocational training in Germany to become e.g. a nurse. 1/3 malengo.org

🚨 Registration is now open for the 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement❗ 19 - 21 September 2024 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Online To register, click here: bit.ly/4cS4ZvZ 📅For the program and more info, visit our conference page: bit.ly/48AgtRZ

Excited to share some professional news with you all this morning! Looking forward to joining Center for Global Development, and it’s all star team of experts and staff. Washington DC, here we come again! cgdev.org/blog/cgd-welco…

History 🙌 Cindy Ngamba becomes the first Refugee Team athlete to win an Olympic medal. Bronze in the women's middleweight boxing 🥉 #BBCOlympics #Paris2024 #Olympics

Come join the Peace & Recovery Program at Innovations for Poverty Action! We are hiring a Program Coordinator to support IPA's global work on conflict, peacebuilding, crime, rule of law, humanitarian response, and displacement. poverty-action.org/program-coordi…

Call for papers for the 17th annual conference on migration and development, this year to be held in Bologna on Dec 9/10. Submissions due Sept 20. Always an excellent conference & has featured some of the best work on the topic. Keynotes are Dean Yang & Sandra.Sequeira

Explore #attitudes and policies toward #refugees through evidence from low- and middle-income countries, a study to be presented by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Thomas Ginn and Franco Malpassi at the 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement. Register now: bit.ly/4fj9Mbt

I am looking for a deputy & thought partner Center for Global Development: record of strong research, interest in management (eg mentoring younger researchers), proven ability & desire to impact policy, strategic thinker. Team worker & builder. Based in DC. Please submit soon! …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/RFQzzCZV…

Explore this study on mentoring #smallbusinesses with evidence from #Uganda, which Travis Baseler, Thomas Ginn, IBRAHIM KASIRYE, Belinda Muya and @AndrewZeitlin will present at the 3rd Research Conference on Forced Displacement. Register now: bit.ly/4fj9Mbt

Colombia's full integration of Venezuelan migrants into labor markets and social services led to: 1- No impact on Colombian workers’ jobs 2- No political backlash 3- Reduced government spending 4- No rise in crime against Colombians, but more reports of abuse from female

Thanks, Center for Global Development for inviting us to the 2nd forced displacement group with IPA LAC Penn Development Research Initiative - DevLab@Penn IPA LAC and others. We presented some ongoing research on data of returnees in Central America. Inspiring event! @aglichtenheld Dany Bahar 🌎🎗️ Thomas Ginn Andrea Velasquez Xavier Devictor

Great paper on whether conditional unemployment benefits can encourage rural-urban migration in LMICs: The treatment resulted in a 200% increase in the probability of moving to Nairobi vs the control (and fared better than unconditional cash transfers)

A thread on USAID, and why it’s a long way from over… The wanton disruption of US assistance has been murderous. By now, kids will have died from malnutrition or one of the afflictions of camp life –perhaps dehydrating diarrhea.

How many lives does U.S. foreign aid save? And how much is Rubio actually proposing to cut? It's hard to keep up. Here's a quick thread on two new pieces with Charles Kenny, diving into the fuzzy and rapidly changing numbers:

Tree took out the sidewalk - but luckily not the house - on 28th in Georgetown Capital Weather Gang

This #WorldRefugeeDay comes as the global refugee system faces financial collapse. Center for Global Development experts are putting forward new research and ideas which can improve the lives of displaced people. Follow this thread for some of the team’s most recent work.⬇️🧵

Join IPA and J-PAL’s third Displaced Livelihoods Webinar on July 23 at 9 am EST as researcher Thomas Ginn and IRC Research Coordinator David Martin Musiime discuss the evidence on an IRC business mentorship program in Kampala, Uganda. Register here: bit.ly/ipaDLIweb