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"At a moral level, I don't think we have any lesson to learn from Europe." Black Girl (1966) Director: Ousmane Sembène

This scene in "The Face of Another" (1966) was filmed at Shibuya, Tokyo. Hiroshi Teshigahara instructed Tatsuya Nakadai to walk among the crowd like a normal person who's badly injured, expecting lively reactions from people on seeing a bandaged face. But they all looked away.

Thrilled to publish the Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 A first-of-its-kind international research collaboration, building on the work of more than 100 researchers, coordinated by the @eutaxobservatory With striking new findings Thread 🧵

"Some of the essential scenes of 'Ran' (1985) are based on my wondering how God & Buddha, if they actually exist, perceive this human life, this mankind stuck in the same absurd behavior patterns." --- Akira Kurosawa

"Fascism is a moment in the history of the middle-class, a means by which the middle-class protects itself from the working class." --- Bernardo Bertolucci on 'The Conformist' (1970) Full Excerpt: "'The Conformist' (1970) is first a film about the bourgeoisie, the

The Weeping Meadow, Angelopoulos, 2004

[Kiarostami's Rain series, 2007—2008] "I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame. So I took my car windscreen as a frame... Everything we can see in the photographs we owe to the light." — Abbas Kiarostami

Italy's real wage misery: inflation-adjusted wages in 2023 were 4.4% lower than in 1990. Even real wages in Greek performed a little better.

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵

On this day, 53 years ago, Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (1972) premiered in Moscow.

Remembering the great American Filmmaker, Robert Altman, on his 100th birthday! The Long Goodbye (1973) Director: Robert Altman

🆕 What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers? Today on VoxDev, Tommaso Crosta, Dean Karlan, Finley Ong, Julius Rüschenpöhler & Christopher Udry (NU Global Poverty Research Lab Kellogg School) explore the impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

🚨 Update on our UCT meta-analysis! 🚨 Remember our NBER paper on the impacts of 💰Unconditional Cash Transfers💰in LMICs? We just added new analysis on labor, contextual factors, model validation, & more! 📌 You can find the original thread here: x.com/deankarlan/sta…

Unconditional cash transfers have wide-ranging effects on well-being and economic security. This VoxDev blog, featuring Dean Karlan and other experts, draws on 115 studies to share key lessons—an area IPA has actively conducted research for over 20 years to support

Unconditional cash transfers are a popular tool for poverty alleviation. This article presents findings from a meta-analysis of 115 studies, which shows that UCTs have positive impacts on consumption, income, labour supply, and child health & education: ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

How do we make sense of the many transitions across employment arrangements in India’s labour market? New in World Development, Rosa & I study the trajectories that characterise Indian labour market, & identify 7 dominant ones. How do they 👀?🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…