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09/16/22

Yale partners with BRAC to advance the science of ending global poverty

The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) has launched a new partnership with BRAC, the world’s largest non-governmental organization, to advance the science of scaling effective programs to end global poverty. The partnership was anno...
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04/20/22

Infrastructure inequality is a challenge to urban sustainability

A new study by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) focuses on infrastructure in India and South Africa to find that infrastructure inequalities are ingrained in the urbanization process. Growing up in Delhi, India, Bhartendu Pandey ’21 PhD walked mil...
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02/24/22

Yale launches Inclusion Economics

Inclusion Economics at Yale University, a policy-engaged research initiative promoting inclusive institutions, economies, and societies has been launched. The initiative is a collaboration between the Economic Growth Center and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for Intern...
Neela Saldanha
12/14/21

Neela Saldanha named executive director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale

Girls school
11/10/21

Progress undone: Rory Stewart on what went wrong in Afghanistan

A former diplomat, British cabinet secretary, and member of Parliament, Rory Stewart is a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. In that role, he has helped established the Yale Development Dialogues, a discussion series jointly presented by the Ja...
KhushiBaby
08/28/21

Can Social Entrepreneurship Complement Public Health Systems?

power plant in India
08/16/21

Yale researchers collaborate with policymakers to reduce India’s industrial air pollution

Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019. The policy tool — an emissions trading system (ETS) known as...
Air pollution
07/28/21

Study finds poor households in India bear brunt of pollution effects

Poorer households in India are bearing a disproportional impact from pollution caused by others, a new study by Yale School of the Environment Associate Professor of Energy Systems Narasimha Rao has found. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, is the firs...
Women workers
07/05/21

For women workers in India, direct deposit is ‘digital empowerment’

India ranks 140th among 156 Nations in the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Gender Gap Index and is only ahead of Pakistan and Afghanistan in South Asia with some of the world’s lowest labor force participation rates. In their latest research, Yale economists  ...
EGC research in India
05/24/21

New data on India's migrant workers and Covid-19

As South Asia struggles with the second wave of coronavirus infections which has hit India and Nepal particularly hard, new lockdowns across the region have been put into place, once again impacting the livelihoods of millions of people. Yale researchers at the Economic Growth...

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