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Lionel Antonio Munoz Rosas

Jobs of the World Project Launch

Check out the Data Portal of the project here. To see what the project is all about, register to the event here. The Jobs of the World Project is a publicly available resource built to enable researchers to analyse comparable labour market outcomes across countries and time using micro data. At the core of the…

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Should Farmers Farm more? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households

It is well known within the field of development economics that farming is an economic activity confronted with risk. It is thought that farmers usually confront the risk of having their crop wasted by natural forces that vary in duration and frequency, by substituting farm- to non-farm labor. In this sense, economic literature would further…

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SME’s During COVID-19

The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a negative toll on the world and its economy in the past years. Although governments and countries have learned how to counteract the effects of the virus more effectively, the economic consequences of disease-induced lockdowns, among many other factors, have especially not been overcome in developing countries. To examine the…

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Summary IZA/FCDO Book Launch

“Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities” Poverty, informality and rural labour, skills training and behaviour, gender inequality, youth and child labour, and migration are some of the most pressing issues affecting labour markets in low-income countries. Which development policies will work and which strategies are likely to fail in these poorest countries? Based…

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Women’s Well-Being during a Pandemic and Its Containment

Pandemics are confronted in a different context in developing countries and thus its containment has different consequences. Women may be especially vulnerable in these settings given gender norms, low availability of mental health services, and weaker state capacity. To examine how women fare in these contexts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the researchers conduct a large…

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Migration and the Labour Market Impacts of COVID-19

Since COVID-19 is primarily transmitted via face-to-face contact, migration plays an outsized role in its global spread. Furthermore, as social distancing policies entail a restriction of migration, be it international or national, households’ whose income is dependent to some degree on labor migration remittances have seen their livelihoods considerably affected. With 272 million people living…

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Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development

Access to formal deposit accounts is still far from a reality for 1.7 billion adults worldwide, most of them living in developing countries. Therefore, savings by the poor have become a priority in the development agenda and savings mobilization strategies for the poor are widely seen as key initiatives for agricultural development, food security and…

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Seasonal Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Three quarters of the worlds’ poor live in rural areas. It is therefore imperative to understand how the COVID-19 Pandemic and the corresponding economic recession affects them. As a long research line has already investigated, seasonality is a preponderant economic feature in the life in rural communities. Today, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South…

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Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity

Individual decision-making is prone to behavioral biases and deviations, especially among the poor. To get a grip on the extent of this, multiple approaches have been developed and investigated, however, evidence on how and why the availability of financial resources affects decision-making is largely missing. In this paper, researchers use multiple resources of variation in…

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IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa

G2LM|LIC proudly announces the launch of IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa. On 17th September, the course began with 1440 participants from 43 countries. Over a period of two months, the participants will be guided through a combination of recorded lectures and live sessions every week. The course is taught by Professors Oriana…

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