Friends in Delhi: I'll be giving a book talk Centre for Policy Research this Thursday at 4:30pm. Rohit Chandra | @rohitreads.bsky.social, Veronique Dupont, and marie helene zerah will discuss. Do come if you have time! bit.ly/2ovFjT7 Cambridge University Press - Politics

WHY AREN’T MORE WOMEN WORKING? Improved facilities, flexible work models, relvant qualifications & reshaping regressive social norms around women’s roles are needed to tackle poor transition from higher education to employment. By Fauzia Viqar dawn.com/news/1511768/s…

An inspiring collaboration between two excellent think tanks, bringing complementary capabilities to tackle tough problems IEA Kenya Urban Institute Sarah T Lucas On Think Tanks

Very good editorial! washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…

I have to read many persistence papers. Often I struggle to unpack what they're saying. Many studies focus on downstream econometric details (or rather the performance of quantitative rigor), but not enough on fundamentals. Like, what is being estimated, what estimates mean. 1/2

This Thursday noon Tax Policy Center with Bill Spriggs, author "Is This a Teachable Moment for Economists?" on structural racism in the field. Also post-Covid fiscal policy. Lively discussion with Urban's Howard Gleckman. See below to attend.

“all foreign-funded projects develop No permanent institution for research, monitoring and training has been established — a basic requirement for any capacity building and the establishment of a continuous culture of learning.” Arif hasan. dawn.com/news/1578061.

Smart for whom? Smart about what?Charles Cadwell @pinthecreep UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign UTC Mumbai

The “Arab Spring” started a decade ago, with a match lit by Mohamed Bouazizi. Only one Arab country, Tunisia, is freer now. Others are governed more ruthlessly and less efficiently. Real improvement requires coming to terms with the region’s religious and intellectual repression.

Design Tools and Development in S Asia - stay up late tonight!! gsdimpact.com on Thursday a.m. (India time). Including Urban Institute alum - visiting fellow, Iromi Perera on right to the city in Colombo. gsdimpact.com/speakers-v3 Iromi Perera Dr. Ammar A. Malik عمار ملک @sara_mct

Mississippi's state govt has passed laws preventing cities from raising the minimum wage, restricting guns, moving Confederate statues, limiting soda sizes, & more. But when the capital city's water system fails after a historic storm, they say it's not their place to intervene.

Does decentralization make a difference? LPSA starts a global discussion with a focus on Asia week of Sept 13. Get clued in by regional and international experts in free virtual events. Details: decentralization.net/2021/08/global… Jamie Boex

Earlier today, IEA Kenya launched its research paper which was co-authored by Urban Institute on "Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Kenya, 2014/15-2019/20: Implications for County Budget Execution" Download here ieakenya.or.ke/?wpdmdl=2595

How much local government should a country have? What should we measure? LPSA webinar October 12 dives into this, looking at three of the top efforts to answer this and related issues. Register decentralization-net.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Jamie Boex Serdar Yilmaz

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Kenya: An Empirical Analysis decentralization.net/2022/11/interg…

Territorial-Administrative Reform in the Republic of Moldova decentralization.net/2022/11/territ…

Learned a lot yesterday at the 7th World Bank/The Elliott School/International Growth Centre urbanization and poverty reduction research conference. Most striking is the overlap between poverty and where climate change will have the most damage. Our cities need to start mitigating and adapting now!

Sign up now for our next popular Political Economy Analysis in Action online training course, starting 4th September. For further information, see our course flyer here. thepolicypractice.com/sites/default/… #training # politicaleconomy

Congratulations to Mary Schapiro for receiving Oxford University's inaugural prize for Greening Finance. We have worked together for the better part of a decade and I can say firsthand that Mary is one of the most dedicated leaders I have had the honour to work with 1/2

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