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According to the World Bank #COVID19 Household Monitoring Dashboard, households in poorer countries were less likely to report receiving govt assistance, & more likely to resort to coping strategies w/ damaging consequences to #poverty and social mobility. wrld.bg/UKPV50QkNrg

Cash transfers are an anti-#poverty tool using prediction models that reach a billion people worldwide. Are they targeting the right households? Stephan Dietrich Daniele Malerba & Franziska Gassmann develop a assessment framework: bit.ly/3Subyx7 United Nations University - MERIT IDOS_research

Calling PhD scholars interested in social policy and welfare studies 😃👇 I look forward to some inspiring days 🤓📚

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

Most countries don't provide granular data on economic activity. Luckily, there are a range of geospatial datasets we can use as proxies. Here's a list of the best (free) resources for estimating sub-national economic activity:

A new validation method shows that people systematically misreport subjective well-being, which means caution is warranted when using such survey responses as welfare measures, from Jim Andreoni, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Tingyan Jia nber.org/papers/w32208

This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream. He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the

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How to make sure funds for school meals are used well? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "A transparency intervention in the Colombian School Meals Program significantly changed the behavior of powerful operators. The intervention consisted of informal audits & text messages to parents."

Social protection for inclusive climate action!🌱 Learn how #IDAworks to use social protection instruments to improve climate resilience and protect the most vulnerable people from climate-related shocks. wrld.bg/TNTg50QMzGI

The Development Impact blog has been slowed down by the World Bank transitioning us to a newer, slower, more cumbersome, platform. But we are up and running with two posts. Here's Gabe Englander on publishing in science journals blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

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Interested in tracking urbanization trends, conflict areas or economic activity? Discover the potential of NASA's #BlackMarble #data with our latest blog post, and explore how #R and #Python packages simplify data access and analysis. 🛰️ wrld.bg/wzkN50R5VFP

🚸How do rural roads impact child labor and schooling in 🇪🇹? The study "Rural Roads, Child Labor, and Schooling in Rural 🇪🇹" in #JDevStudies finds that improved road access doesn’t lead to more dropouts or child labor. 👉🏽Read: doi.org/10.1080/002203… Franziska Gassmann Maastricht University

The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws. Channel 4 News Codify #GenderApartheid As A #CrimeAgainstHumanity

Afghan women can now be punished for singing or speaking in public. The Taliban's silencing of women’s voices in Afghanistan is abhorrent. Human Rights Watch WRN Afghanistan #LetUsExist End #GenderApartheid

Afghan Women Rights Activist Tahmina Salik: With these sounds, and poetry we Afghan women shook the palace of your authoritarian rule and we will destroy it. Afghan women are shared their voices through the poetry for their freedom. #صدای_زن_عورت_نیست #GenderApartheid

Afghan Women Singing in English for Freedom and Gender Apartheid 🇦🇫 The slogan "My voice is not private" of Afghan women after the Taliban enacted a new law for women and banned women's voices in the media. #Poems_For_Freedom #GenderApartheid #UN