After the success of the first conference, the submission link for the second is already open tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba. Submit by Dec 1. Workshop in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026, jointly organised with Rotterdam Global Health Initiative and Erasmus School of Economics.

Closing a fantastic IFS-ADBI-GHE Health Economics in LMICs workshop 🔝A huge thank you to all of you who joined us in London @theifs.bsky.social @papiteide.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social

De vuelta a casa / back home for LACEA-RIDGE at U del Pacifico, Lima, Peru! A pleasure to be part of this community of Peruvian/Latina Economists 💪🏽🇵🇪

👏 Thank you for joining us at the @cepr.org Development Economics Symposium 2025, joint with NovaSBE, NOVAFRICA, @erc.europa.eu! We had an incredible two days filled with thoughtful discussions and amazing research on development economics. See you at future NOVAFRICA events! #EconDev #NOVAFRICA

🚰 Investigating how exclusion from public services can lead to spillover effects and unintended externalities by @bancalaria.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social "Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities" Co-authors: Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, and Maitreesh Ghatak #EconDev

📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social /BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13 Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...

To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field. Ads: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK740/p... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK745/s... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM015/l... #EconSky

Rethinking foreign aid: In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments outside of the US, multilateral institutions, and philanthropists to take the lead on impactful and cost-effective foreign aid. buff.ly/gRYRszI

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics! IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review. 📗Find out more:

Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week. I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.

Cutting Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GDP means that a massive fraction of our aid budget will be spent in the UK on accommodation for asylum seekers. I don't have an up to date estimate, but could easily be half. Leaves much, much less for "traditional" aid.

i just made the mistake of reading the comments on a NYT article on foreign aid. My god, some people are just way too dumb to understand how lucky they are to have been born in a rich country. Not better or more deserving, just lucky. It's so simple and obvious.

Workshop alert 🚨 Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15! News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟 ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

Workshop alert 🚨 Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15! News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟 ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities. He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

The claim that only 10% of USAID money reaches its intended beneficiaries is wrong. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & @justsand.bsky.social look at where the figure originates, why it doesn’t show what critics claim, & why it offers no pretext for shutting down USAID: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development Today on VoxDev, Antonella Bancalari (Institute for Fiscal Studies) & Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) outline their research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🆕 Electronic waste is a silent killer in West Africa Today on VoxDev, Stefania Lovo and Sam Rawlings (University of Reading) outline evidence from Ghana and Nigeria which shows that e-waste dumping is causing a health crisis: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at: ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at: ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

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📢 New Working Paper Alert! 🧵 “Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures, and Local Economies” with @juanpablorud.bsky.social We study whether inter-governmental transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity. ifs.org.uk/publications...