1/ Amid of time of so many tough global challenges for sustainable development, I find many forms of inspiration in our recent #Breakthrough book. Available as free download + now also hard copies for purchase: brookings.edu/book/breakthro… A synopsis of 12 chapters in a 🧵👇

Thrilled to finally see my job market paper in print today in the latest issue of AEJ: Microeconomics

A fabulous way to start the day at the #FragilityForum2022 !! Grateful for the amazingly inspiring Minister Herve Ndoba from CAR Manizha Wafeq AWCCI Ambar Amleh @SPimentaIFC IFC Tarek Ghani Crisis Group ➡️hopin.com/events/fragili…

Violence in Afghanistan causes people to reduce mobile money use and increase cash holdings. Just Accepted new paper by Tarek Ghani (Tarek Ghani), Joshua Blumenstock (Joshua Blumenstock), Michael Callen (no twitter), Robert Gonzalez (Robert M. Gonzalez). zcu.io/0K5z

$90,000 in #graduateschool tuition and stipend support? Sign me up! Watch our latest info. session, which features two of our current Fellows, to learn about how to apply for our #Fellowship program: pdsoros.org/apply/recorded…

Fellowship call to increase diversity in development economics🚨 Stay tuned for the launch of the second round of the Kabir Banerjee Predoctoral Fellowship. Applications will be open from October 10th through December 12th. More info here: bfi.uchicago.edu/weiss-fund-pre…

Carson Christiano Lauren Young Elayne Stecher Nancy Lindborg Packard Foundation FEWS NET @tedmiguel solhsiang Marshall Burke @ClaireAdida Many governments do a poor job at identifying employees & paying salaries. In Afghanistan, such basic foundations of state capacity aren't trivial: 48% of teachers are absent & 55% of teachers experience payment delays, shares Tarek Ghani at #E2A2022 cega.berkeley.edu/impact/mobile-…

Super excited for v2 of our Mobile Money VoxDev Lit out!! VoxDev Launch event: 10AM EST TODAY! cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Worked with an amazing bunch of co-editors: #JennyAker Catia Batista #MichaelCallen Tarek Ghani #BillyJack Leora Klapper Emma Riley #SimoneSchaner Sandip Sukhtankar

Our work on violent competition between small and large scale miners out as Empirical Studies of Conflict Project working paper! With Jacob Shapiro, Tarek Ghani and Juan Sebastian Lozano

The quality submissions just keep coming! We are pleased to release our 35th working paper led by our Crisis Group Future of Conflict alumni Anouk S. Rigterink Juan Sebastian Lozano & Tarek Ghani esoc.princeton.edu/WP35

Amid a #mining boom to secure #CriticalMinerals for #CleanEnergy, watch for more conflict between small-scale and industrial miners working on the same deposits. From Tarek Ghani, Juan Sebastian Lozano, Anouk S. Rigterink, Jacob Shapiro (Empirical Studies of Conflict Project): #Africa #energytransition #supplychains

📢Now out! 📢 How to Clean Up the Clean Energy Transition: Preventing Violence Over New ‘Conflict Minerals’ justsecurity.org/93079/how-to-c… Empirical Studies of Conflict Project Centre for Institutions and Political Behaviour

In today’s #MustRead, Tarek Ghani, Juan Sebastian Lozano, Anouk S. Rigterink, and Jacob Shapiro examine the narrative of ‘conflict minerals’ and suggest that efforts to further integrate small-scale miners can reduce conflict and advance economic development. Read more from Just Security ⬇️

“As the green energy transition drives demand for mining in unstable regions, managing potential conflict between artisanal and industrial miners will be critical for advancing economic development and minimizing conflict.” Tarek Ghani in @Just_Security: justsecurity.org/93079/how-to-c…

Violence in Afghanistan causes people to reduce mobile money use and increase cash holdings. In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Tarek Ghani (Tarek Ghani), Joshua Blumenstock (Joshua Blumenstock), Michael Callen (no twitter), Robert Gonzalez (Robert M. Gonzalez). zurl.co/wf88

🆕Can digital humanitarian aid reach vulnerable populations in fragile states? Today on VoxDev, Michael Callen LSE Department of Economics, Michael Findley UT Austin, Tarek Ghani @WUSTL & Miguel Fajardo Steinhäuser LSE Department of Economics explore the impact of delivering digital aid to Afghan women: voxdev.org/topic/finance/…

“Supporting Ukraine is a moral imperative, but it’s also essential for the security of all of Europe.” Antti Lindtman, Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland #GlobalProgressAction24

“Peace is something we should be thinking about a lot more deeply in progressive circles, because it’s clearly something we can no longer take for granted." Gerald Butts at #GlobalProgressAction24

Happy to share this VoxDev column (with Mike Callen, Tarek Ghani & Michael Findley) on our project providing humanitarian aid digitally to vulnerable women in Afghanistan! Link to the full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2312.13432.

📢In this Journal of Politics @[email protected] blog post Anouk S. Rigterink, Tarek Ghani, Juan S. Lozano & Jacob Shapiro provide evidence that competition between artisanal & industrial miners is an important source of natural resources-related conflict. Read more⬇️jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/the-world-need…