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A Quick Guide to 100+ Publications by Economics Nobel Winner Esther Duflo

October 29, 2019
Two weeks ago, Esther Duflo won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences<, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” In the blog post below, you’ll find a quick introduction to more than a hundred of ...
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Short-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania - Working Paper 478

March 16, 2018
This paper presents short-term results from an experiment randomizing the promotion and registration of a mobile savings account among women microentrepreneurs in Tanzania, with and without business training. Six months post-intervention, the results show that women save substantially more through t...
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Beyond Aid—and Microcredit: Three Recommendations to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment

November 14, 2016
Recently CGD hosted the Second Annual Birdsall House Conference on Women, which focused on beyond-aid approaches for women’s economic empowerment, with particular emphasis on private sector engagement. CGD experts have written about how international organizations and natio...
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The Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015

January 05, 2016
In case you missed them, here are the most popular blog posts from 2015, as determined by our readers.