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Professor of Economics, Yale University | Development Economics | Bangladesh | Y-RISE
This talk (Wed, Oct 29, 10am US ET) will be livestreamed by the World Bank. Link below.
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
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ECA Talk: Should We Encourage Migration Through Policy Interventions?
Join this talk to discover innovative approaches and policies aimed at overcoming the challenges of living in remote rural areas.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2025/10/29/should-we-encourage-migration-through-policy-interventions
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The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026. Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here:
tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...
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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme
2 months ago
📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th
@afd-france.bsky.social
World Bank International Conference on
#Migration
&
#Development
📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi,
@dmckenzie.bsky.social
&
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
#EconSky
#Inequality
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Large sample data on patterns of violence by the Myanmar military (alongside civilians, including Buddhist monks) against their Rohingya minority suggest that there are systematic economic and expropriation motives for the forced displacement of the Rohingya.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/eco...
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Economic Data Helps Explain a Pattern of Violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Minority
New research from Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak shows that the violence and looting in rice-growing areas is tied to rice prices, suggesting an economic motivation for the attacks, and finds that the gov...
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/economic-data-helps-explain-pattern-of-violence-against-myanmars-rohingya-minority
2 months ago
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An unusual academic conversation with
@sebastiantt.bsky.social
and
@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social
about the mechanics of conducting research with implementing organizations. (Recorded in 2022, so it's a bit dated. Referee 2 wanted a lot of changes before the podcast got published)
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2 months ago
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Sebastian Tello Trillo
3 months ago
Really excited for this week’s episode! We (
@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social
) talk with @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social on how to work with large organizations and governments to implement research and policy.
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Microeconomic Insights
3 months ago
New from David Lagakos,
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
and Michael Waugh: 'Welfare Effects of Subsidizing Seasonal Migration' Migration experiments in rural Bangladesh offer a unique perspective on the potential benefits and costs of out-migration for rural individuals.
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Yale Economic Growth Center
3 months ago
🗣️
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
: "𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞" 📶 The EGC affiliate wrote in
@financialtimes.com
on how mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places. 📚 Read more:
egc.yale.edu/news/250821/...
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Mobarak in Financial Times: "Living in remote areas shouldn’t be a death sentence"
EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak authored a commentary in Financial Times on how mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places.
https://egc.yale.edu/news/250821/mobarak-financial-times-living-remote-areas-shouldnt-be-death-sentence
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VoxDev
3 months ago
🆕 How internal migration is reshaping rural India Today on VoxDev,
@raamadhok.bsky.social
(University of Minnesota), Frederik Noack (UBC),
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
(Yale) & Olivier Deschenes (UCSB) discuss the internal migration of agricultural workers in India:
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How internal migration is reshaping rural India
Internal migration of agricultural workers in India leads to a downsizing of farms near cities and an expansion in remote areas, prompting a spatial reorganisation of agriculture whereby remote, non-m...
https://voxdev.org/topic/migration-urbanisation/how-internal-migration-reshaping-rural-india
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Raymond Guiteras
3 months ago
Op-ed by my co-author and friend
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
in the FT today. Gift link:
www.ft.com/content/61d0...
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Yale Economic Growth Center
4 months ago
🌏 While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. 📊 In Ideas for India,
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
& coauthors dig deeper. 📚 Read the newest EGC Perspectives article:
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Internal migration and spatial reorganisation of agriculture
While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. Analysing Indian data, this article shows...
https://egc.yale.edu/news/250618/internal-migration-and-spatial-reorganisation-agriculture
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NBER
5 months ago
For large-scale social benefit programs, algorithms utilizing mobile phone metadata can be a cost-effective method for identifying the poor, from Emily Aiken, Anik Ashraf, Joshua Blumenstock,
@guiterasecon.bsky.social
, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33919
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Ugo Panizza
5 months ago
A must-read open letter from Fields Medalists working in Switzerland. Cutting annual budgets for education and research is always a short-sighted mistake. Even a bigger mistake now when there is a unique opportunity to attract top global talent from the US.
science-under-threat.com
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Swiss Science Under Threat
https://science-under-threat.com/
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This is a right-wing government with a policy on immigration that is responsive to domestic labor needs. While other countries think about how much we can pay citizens to have babies domestically.
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
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Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years
The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.
https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-issue-half-million-non-eu-work-visas-over-next-three-years-2025-06-30/
5 months ago
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it's great to see
@carnegiecorp.bsky.social
celebrating naturalized citizens' contributions to the United States. Andrew Carnegie was himself an immigrant.
www.carnegie.org/news/article...
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Great Immigrants Great Americans: The Comic Series | Carnegie Corporation of New York
https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/great-immigrants-great-americans-the-comic-series/
5 months ago
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Migration and Development Conference in Paris. Deadline for paper submission: July 15.
5 months ago
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Atul Gawande
5 months ago
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of
@gavi.org
. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/rfk-vaccine-donations-gavi-00422705
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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme
5 months ago
📣 Call for papers - 18th International Conference on
#Migration
and
#Development
📅 Event held September 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 With keynote's from: Paula Gobbi,
@dmckenzie.bsky.social
&
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
⌛ Submit by July 15, 2025
#EconSky
#Poverty
#Inequality
#Globalization
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Raymond Guiteras
5 months ago
New
@nber.org
working paper with
emilylaiken.github.io
,
sites.google.com/view/anikash...
,
www.jblumenstock.com
and
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
: Scalable Targeting of Social Protection: When Do Algorithms Out-Perform Surveys and Community Knowledge?
www.nber.org/papers/w33919
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Scalable Targeting of Social Protection: When Do Algorithms Out-Perform Surveys and Community Knowledge?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33919
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Yale Economic Growth Center
5 months ago
📃 A new EGC Discussion Paper by
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
(
@yaleeconomics.bsky.social
) & coauthors examines systems for identifying recipients of benefit transfers and studies how their cost-effectiveness varies with the scale and scope of the program. 📚 Read the paper:
egc.yale.edu/research/mob...
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Mobarak et al., 2025: "Scalable Targeting of Social Protection: When Do Algorithms Out-Perform Surveys and Community Knowledge?"
https://egc.yale.edu/research/mobarak-et-al-2025-scalable-targeting-social-protection-when-do-algorithms-out-perform-surveys-and
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"The countries that succeed are the ones that are able to create institutions that attract talent from wherever it happens to be born."
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When Skilled Workers Go Abroad, Their Home Countries Experience ‘Brain Gain’
When skilled workers from poorer countries migrate to wealthy ones, there are benefits for the origin countries as well as workers and the host countries, according to new research co-authored by Yale...
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/when-skilled-workers-go-abroad-their-home-countries-experience-brain-gain
5 months ago
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Johannes Haushofer
6 months ago
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain":
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF:
johanneshaushofer.com/research
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Jeff Mosenkis
6 months ago
Brain Drain or Brain Gain?
@catiabatista.bsky.social
@danielhan.bsky.social
@deanyang.bsky.social
@econgaurav.bsky.social
@dmckenzie.bsky.social
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
Theoharides &
@deanyang.bsky.social
show w/ the right policies, high-skill emigration can bring new workers into the sector
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CSAE
6 months ago
Join us for the next CSAE Lunchtime Seminar 'Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration' 🗣️
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
@yaleegc.bsky.social
📆Wed 28 May, 12:30, Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events
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Dean Yang
6 months ago
What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain":
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10...
. Ungated PDF:
deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil...
#EconSky
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https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10...
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CSAE
6 months ago
Last chance to register for the CSAE/OxCIS seminar today. Unpacking the 2024 Student Revolution in Bangladesh Today (27 May) at 5 pm BST
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
,
@yaleegc.bsky.social
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, Oxford Register by 12 noon:
www.oxcis.ac.uk/form/banglad...
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David McKenzie
6 months ago
How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy)
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? A new review highlights what we’ve learned and what we still don’t know
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/how-does-high-skilled-emigration-affect-countries-of-origin--a-n?CID=WBW_AL_BlogNotification_EN_EXT
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Raahil Madhok
6 months ago
🚨New
@nber.org
WP🚨 We use data on 42,000 households in
#India
to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As
#farmers
move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)
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Yale Economic Growth Center
5 months ago
💡Why is it so hard to implement a good idea?
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
(EGC,
@yaleeconomics.bsky.social
@yalesom.bsky.social
) on what happens when technically sound solutions meet politics, behavior, unintended consequences. "Lessons from SOM" pod:
insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/les...
#GlobalDev
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When Ideas Meet the Real World with Mushfiq Mobarak
Development economist Mushfiq Mobarak explains how implementing new ideas can be complicated by politics, unintended consequences, and the complexities of human behavior.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/lessons-from-the-yale-school-of-management/when-ideas-meet-the-real-world-with-mushfiq
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Helen Dempster
5 months ago
Great new
@science.org
article by the rockstars of development economics looks at the evidence on the impact of skilled emigration on origin countries. TL;DR, it can be positive, but we need a *lot* more work in this area!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Brain drain or brain gain? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
How does emigration of highly educated citizens of low-income countries to high-income countries affect the economies of the origin countries? The direct effect is “brain drain”—a decrease in the coun...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr8861
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Asha Rangappa
6 months ago
Re birthright citizenship: The potential chaos is the point. If there is ambiguity regarding who is a citizen and who isn’t, there is then more pretext for rounding up people for being here “illegally” and then making it hard or impossible to prove their citizenship
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Catherine Rampell
6 months ago
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent (0.0018%) Meanwhile the new DOGE-implemented system slowed retirement claim processing by 25%
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
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DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW...
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/
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CSAE
7 months ago
The CSAE Lunchtime Seminars are back! Starting on 07 May, we've got a fantastic line-up for you: 🔸Sandra Sequeira,
@lseid.bsky.social
🔸Elias Papaioannou, London Business School 🔸
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
,Yale 🔸Edward Miguel, UC, Berkeley 🔸Rohini Pande,Yale
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
7 months ago
📢 Announcing the 2025 Andrew
#CarnegieFellows
! These 26 fellows have been awarded $200K each to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more:
carnegie.io/4lvr3kC
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Carnegie Corporation of New York Awards Fellowships to 26 Scholars Researching Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York
The philanthropic foundation’s three-year, $18 million initiative supports interdisciplinary research into the causes of polarization and ways to mitigate it
https://carnegie.io/4lvr3kC
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Bloomberg News
7 months ago
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.
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US Economy Is Set to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away
The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/us-economy-is-set-to-lose-billions-as-foreign-tourists-stay-away?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business
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Corey Atad
7 months ago
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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harvard.edu
homepage repurposed to tell stories of what research produces for humanity. Incredibly powerful. The innovation below builds on UC-Berkeley chemistry research. The US research ecosystem matters. Drive traffic to
harvard.edu
today.
#WeAreHarvard
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Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease
How a genetic insight paired with gene editing technology led to a life-changing new therapy
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/creating-worlds-first-crispr-medicine-sickle-cell-disease
7 months ago
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eui-eco.bsky.social
7 months ago
🎉We’re honored to host
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
as the next speaker in our
#Gender
Talks series! He’ll present “The Social Determinants of
#GenderGaps
Among the High-Skilled, and Policy Implications” 📅 THU 10 April⏰11:00 🚩 Villa La Fonte Register here 👇
www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
#labourmarket
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The social determinants of gender gaps among the high-skilled, and policy implications
In this event, Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) will explore labour market and gender disparities.
https://www.eui.eu/events?id=578272
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Just received this from Yale. It would be useful for students to have a tutorial on what they are allowed to say, and what they're not allowed to say.
8 months ago
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Martín Fernández
8 months ago
Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) discusses the barriers to regular migration and what intermediaries and governments can do about it:
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
youtu.be/pOPDsV70p2c?...
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Crossing Borders at a Glance : Interview of Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak
YouTube video by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
https://youtu.be/pOPDsV70p2c?si=5M5eXWtIAtFkyzgN
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With UC-Berkeley legends Alain de Janvry and Betty Sadoulet (and future legend Kelsey Jack)
8 months ago
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Oliver Alexander
9 months ago
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
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9 months ago
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Notre Dame Economics
9 months ago
Happening today: New Frontiers in Economic Development lecture series with Mushfiq Mobarak
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry
9 months ago
wrote an op-ed in our local paper drawing attention to the effects of USAID cuts on Illinois businesses TL;DR it's bad!! How USAID funding cuts hurt Illinois
www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
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My Turn | How USAID funding cuts hurt Illinois
"The domestic consequences of the USAID shutdown will hurt the entire country directly," writes UI Assistant Professor Cleo O'Brien-Udry. "Illinois will be dramatically impacted due to its large agric...
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/my-turn-how-usaid-funding-cuts-hurt-illinois/article_f6cc845c-f2f4-11ef-b9be-8fc09e427d47.html
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Opinion | Academia is finally learning hard lessons
Universities took prestige, public support for granted. Trump is making them pay the price.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/universities-colleges-liberal-power-trump/
9 months ago
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Catherine Rampell
9 months ago
Lawyer at Musk’s X warned major ad company: get your clients to spend more on X, or else. Was a reminder that the ad company’s recently announced merger could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government
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Exclusive | X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending
Interpublic Group recently signed an advertising agreement with the social-media platform; other agencies are also in negotiations.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-hinted-at-possible-deal-trouble-in-talks-with-ad-giant-to-increase-spending-feb122a6?st=zc7Cva&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Yale Economic Growth Center
9 months ago
👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Yale Economic Growth Center &
@yaleeconomics.bsky.social
launch our accounts today. We join
#EconSky
#GlobalDev
community
@cgdev.org
@theigc.bsky.social
@j-pal.bsky.social
@princetondevo.bsky.social
@voxdev.bsky.social
@worldresources.bsky.social
& others to come.
egc.yale.edu
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Call for papers. Deadline: Feb 28 Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
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Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop|STEG
The workshop, now at its 5th edition, seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, and migration.
https://steg.cepr.org/events/firms-labor-markets-and-development-workshop
10 months ago
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Profile of Dr. Yunus and the Monsoon Revolution in Bangladesh in Nature magazine:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The revolutionary economist who became the unlikely leader of Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03896-z
11 months ago
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