All VoxDevTalks
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Financing climate adaptation: What works, what doesn’t, and can carbon credits help to bridge the gap?
The first episode of Development Dialogues, our new series with Yale's Economic Growth Center, explores how climate finance can reach those who need it most.
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The role of cities in economic development
Cities can be engines of growth. How can policymakers realise the benefits of cities while minimising the drawbacks of urbanisation?
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Can we use experiments to understand institutions?
A growing body of research uses experimental methods to study institutional quality and change, offering important policy implications.
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What can we learn from food economics?
Food economics holds important lessons about market power in supply and product markets, poverty and malnutrition, and farm size.
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How connecting firms to markets can promote economic development
Market access can improve firms’ performance. More research is needed to understand which type of market access programmes are the best at generating firm growth.
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The gap between education policy and practice
There are large gaps between policy and practice in education. New systematic analysis shines a light on this 'policy-practice' gap in 50 countries during COVID-19 and motivates increased focus on policy implementation.
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Navigating macroeconomic shocks and post-Covid recovery in sub-Saharan Africa
Despite the relatively well-implemented and coordinated macroeconomic policy in sub-Saharan Africa, governments still face debt overhangs, adverse human capital effects due to lost years of learning, and revenue mobilisation challenges.
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How do floods impact economic development?
Machine learning and satellite data can help capture how households respond and adapt to floods. Providing better quality information can make climate change adaptation more efficient.
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How meritocracy varies across the world
Income differences between high- and low-income countries reflect differences in technology adoption and skill endowments. Ensuring the right worker finds the right job - improving worker-job matching – can play an important role in realising the gains of technology and endowment upgrading.