ICYMI: 🚨Center for Global Development is hiring🚨 Senior fellows / fellows Could be the biggest hiring round in my many years here, as Rachel Glennerster takes the reins this week as our new president. Esp. looking for ppl in: health development finance education agriculture, & climate

The World Bank's Development Impact team (#DIME) debuted #ImpactAI, still under development, at the Google.org Impact Summit, as part of the #GenAI Accelerator. Learn how #ImpactAI will improve access to evidence for policymakers. ➡️tinyurl.com/impact-ai-show…

Native-born Americans have an incarceration rate 3.5 times higher than that of all Haitian immigrants. cato.org/blog/haitian-c…

The returns to education turn 50: reflections on the work of George Psacharopoulos Free eprints tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A Blueprint for Better International Collaboration on #Evidence | The Behavioural Insights Team bi.team/publications/i…

A literature review on human capital with a focus on social skills, decision making, and other higher-order capacities, from David Deming and mikko silliman nber.org/papers/w32908

What are the next-generation evidence-based programs for impact at scale? #BestBetsIPA features 14 promising innovations across 10 sectors evaluated for impact, scalability & evidence quality. Explore these transformative innovations in #GlobalDevelopment! bit.ly/bestbetsipa

🆕Pricing health insurance in India Today on VoxDex, Anup Malani The University of Chicago, Cynthia Kinnan Tufts University, Gabriella Conti UCL Economics, Alessandra Voena Stanford Economics & Kosuke Imai Harvard Department of Economics discuss their findings from their latest research ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

AMERICA *IS* THE MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, JD Vance!!!

Congrats to participants and winners of Inter-American Development Bank #YoungEconomistAward— you are the next generation of economic minds, and your research is shaping the future of policymaking and development in Latin America & the Caribbean! Thank you for your fresh perspectives to continue

Thanks to the Congressional Black Caucus and Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick for the invitation to talk about #Haiti. The situation in 🇭🇹 remains challenging, but we can change this reality. A joint effort and a well articulated plan are key to succeed in the reconstruction of #Haiti. Inter-American Development Bank

Chile produced 9.4% of its primary energy from solar in 2023 — the highest in any country that year. Worldwide, the share of solar has increased 35(!)fold since 2010. Sources and analysis by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/…

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The World Bank Group released decades of proprietary emerging market default and recovery statistics - as a public good - to drive more private sector capital into developing economies. Learn more: wrld.bg/Ji2r50SZt2h

🤝 Germany has agreed to welcome 250,000 skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers in a new targeted labor migration deal. As Kenya faces high youth unemployment, Germany is tackling a shortage of skilled labor. Read more about the deal 👇 bbc.in/3MIDZU3

Pharma is still struggling to widen access to medicines — and reach patients — in low- and middle-income countries statnews.com/pharmalot/2024… via STAT

"The National Health Service is in serious trouble." gov.uk/government/pub…

Wildfire smoke has substantial, nonlinear impacts on US adult mortality and emergency room use, highlighting the benefits of improved air quality, even in areas meeting regulatory standards, from Nolan Miller, David Molitor, and eric zou nber.org/papers/w32924

VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable Anne Brockmeyer World Bank Research, Giulia Mascagni International Centre for Tax and Development, Mazhar Waseem Manchester Economics, Miguel Almunia CUNEF Universidad & Vedanth Nair Institute for Fiscal Studies outline key takeaways from their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

"The world regions of Latin America and Africa remain largely absent from the global atlas of AI life science research." nature.com/articles/s4146…