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Speakers: Miguel Angel Santos, Senior Research Fellow, CID (Jordan, Panama, Venezuela, sub-national Mexico)Douglas Barrios, Research Fellow, CID (Venezuela, sub-national Mexico)Tim O'Brien, Research Fellow, CID (Sri Lanka, Albania, Jordan) About the talk: This panel discussion will focus on how to overcome the implementation challenges that arise when doing growth diagnostics, make high bandwidth development policies politically viable, and […] |
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Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board About the talk: In this talk, Prof. Saif will present a series of large-scale systems which use cheap smartphones and machine learning to inform policy in the government. Specifically, the talk will focus on three areas: (1) Agriculture: Their platform, FoodAtHome.org, uses free multi-spectral imagery, smartphone-based […]
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Speaker: Alice Evans, Associate, Building State Capability Program and Lecturer, King's College London About the talk: A contemporary challenge is inequality. In this seminar, Alice Evans will present findings from her paper, "Politicising Inequality: The Power of Ideas". The paper illustrates why ideas matter, and how they can change over time. Inequalities are reinforced when they are taken […] |
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Speakers: Daniel Stock, Research Fellow, CID; Timothy O'Brien, Research Fellow, CID; Sehar Noor, Research Assistant, CID About the talk: Starting in November 2015, the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab has been engaged in economic policy research with the Government of Sri Lanka. Led by Professor Ricardo Hausmann, the team has focused on a single question: what […] |
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Speaker: Aaron Berman, Research Fellow, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) About the talk: In this talk, Aaron Berman will present an overview of EPoD's research on cash transfers in developing countries, led by Professors Rema Hanna (HKS) and Ben Olken (MIT). He will focus in particular on two research projects. The first, "Universal Basic Incomes […] |
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