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Dean's award for excellence in research awarded to the CDES director
Professor Asad Islam receives the Dean's award for excellence in research.
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Associate Professor Gaurav Datt (CDES Deputy Director) has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Indian Economic Review, Journal of Delhi School of Economics, published by Springer.
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Professor Asad Islam's (CDES Director) interview with the Global Labour Organisation (GLO) on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in the developing economies
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Using intermediaries to deliver credit
Pushkar Maitra, VoxDev, 2 March 2020
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The Necessity for Delinking Democracy From Majoritarianism
Ranjan Ray, The Wire, 25 February 2020
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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and randomised controlled trials
Professor Asad Islam writes in Bangladesh's The Financial Express about the new approach to obtaining reliable answers in fighting global poverty
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Monash Business School researchers named ASSA Fellows
Professors Zenou and Magee are among 37 of Australia’s leading economists, lawyers, psychologists and philosophers elected as Fellows of the ASSA, one of Australia's four learned academies.
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Non-Financial Incentives for Volunteer Tutors
A project by Asad Islam, M. Abdul Malek, Sakiba Tasneem, and Liang Choon Wang featured on the Behavioral Evidence Hub
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The Impact of Referrals to Improve Targeting for Agricultural Training in Bangladesh
A research by Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Mohammad Abdul Malek, and Debayan Pakrashi featured on J-PAL
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Non-price energy conservation and household energy consumption: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
A research by Asad Islam, Ahsanuzzaman and Liang Choon Wang featured on IGC
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Do chess playing children perform better in school?
Islam et al’s research paper on “The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes” featured on Chessnews
23 October 2019
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As Inequality Rises, So Does the Relevance of A.B. Atkinson’s Work
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 2 Oct 2019
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The challenge of India’s growing inequality
Ranjan Ray and Gaurav Datt
East Asia Forum, 27 July 2019
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The Unrealistic Optimism of Indians on Prospects of Upward Social Mobility
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 14 Jun 2019
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How information matters for adopting a new technology in Bangladesh
A research by Asad Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, and Xin Zhang featured on VOX, 6 Jun 2019
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Recognising the Challenge of Income Inequality in India
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 23 Apr 2019
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The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare.
Review by Paul Krugman, on the work of CDES Advisory Board member Mary Amiti, (Federal Reserve Bank, NY)
New York Times, 3 Mar 2019
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After #MeToo, India Needs to Think Seriously About Its ‘Missing Women’
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 1 Dec 2018
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Child Health, Fertility, and Sex Ratio: India vs Bangladesh
Ranjan Ray, Salma Ahmed and Aparajita Dasgupta
Ideas for India, 22 Nov 2018
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Purdah disempowers Pakistan’s women and weakens its economy
Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Sisira Jayasuriya, CDES Director
East Asia Forum, 30 Aug 2018
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Without Tackling Hunger and Malnutrition, India's 'Acche Din' Will Remain Stunted
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 7 Aug 2018
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The accident of birth
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 27 Jul 2018
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On research in development economics
Interview with CDES Advisory Board member Dilip Mookherjee
Ideas for India, 6 Jul 2018
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Educated Girl of Today is Empowered Woman of Tomorrow: Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer program!!
Blog post by an IIM, Ahmedabad PhD student on the work of Asad Islam
6 Jul 2018
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IPS highlights urgent policy reforms needed to transform Sri Lanka’s post-conflict growth
Features comments by the CDES' Director, Sisira Jayasuriya
Daily Financial Times, 5 Jul 2018
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GST: A 'good and simple' tax?
Gaurav Datt
Ideas for India, 18 Jun 2018
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Inequality, Not Poverty, is Behind the Global Rise of Identity Politics
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 18 May 2018
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Basic health before basic income
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 16 May 2018
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The Worrying Rise of Covert Trade Protectionism
Giovanni Di Lieto
Brink, 28 Feb 2018
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In the economic power struggle for Asia, Trump and Xi Jinping are switching policies
Giovanni Di Lieto
The Conversation, 18 Jan 2018
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Food security: Trying new rice cultivation method
Asad Islam
The Financial Express, 15 Nov 2017
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The birthplaces of African leaders receive an awful lot of aid
Notes the work of Paul Raschky and co-researchers
The Economist, 7 Oct 2017
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New goals
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 24 Aug 2017
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Among the Good Believers
Notes the work of Pushkar Maitra and co-researchers
Open, 28 Jul 2017
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More International Cooperation Needed To Regain Control Over Labour Migration
Giovanni Di Lieto
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 3 Apr 2017
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Parallel economy responsible for rising national inequality
Notes the work of Ranjan Ray and co-researcher
Business Daily, 12 Feb 2017
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The Trillion Internet Observations Showing How Global Sleep Patterns Are Changing
Notes the work of Simon Angus, Paul Raschky and co-researcher 
MIT Technology Review, 31 Jan 2017
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Ensuring quality education
Notes the work of Asad Islam
The Financial Express, 23 Jan 2017
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Challenges South Asia faces
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
The Financial Express, 16 Jan 2017
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Be prepared for global impending changes
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
Daily Financial Times, 13 Jan 2017
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Sri Lanka, a test bed for economic experimentation, says Amunugama
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
Daily Mirror, 12 Jan 2017
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Poverty reduction in India: Revisiting past debates with 60 years of data
Gaurav Datt, Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion
Ideas for India, 10 Oct 2016
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Chinese aid is helping African economies, but not in the places that need it most
B. Parks, R. Hodler, A. Dreher, P. Raschky, M. Tierney and A.Fuchs
The Washington Post, 7 Oct 2016
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Whither female disadvantage? An analysis of private school enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma
Ideas for India, 7 Oct 2016
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The Afternoon Adda - Portliness Amidst Poverty: Evidence from India
A discussion with Pushkar Maitra
Australia India Institute Podcast, Aug 2016
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The growing problem of excess weight in India
Pushkar Maitra and Nidhiya Menon
Ideas for India, 27 Jun 2016
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India, the driver of growth for Bharat
Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai
The Indian Express, 13 Jun 2016
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Misplaced charity
Notes the work of Paul Raschky and co-researchers
The Economist, 11 Jun 2016
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Quality of governance and welfare outcomes
Salma Ahmed and Ranjan Ray
Ideas for India, 27 Apr 2016
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