Antonella Bancalari

After the success of the first conference, the submission link for the second is already open tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba. Submit by Dec 1. Workshop in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026, jointly organised with Rotterdam Global Health Initiative and Erasmus School of Economics.

Closing a fantastic IFS-ADBI-GHE Health Economics in LMICs workshop 🔝A huge thank you to all of you who joined us in London @theifs.bsky.social @papiteide.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social

De vuelta a casa / back home for LACEA-RIDGE at U del Pacifico, Lima, Peru! A pleasure to be part of this community of Peruvian/Latina Economists 💪🏽🇵🇪

Thanks for organizing! Amazing people and papers, with this view ⬇️

👏 Thank you for joining us at the @cepr.org Development Economics Symposium 2025, joint with NovaSBE, NOVAFRICA, @erc.europa.eu!

We had an incredible two days filled with thoughtful discussions and amazing research on development economics.

See you at future NOVAFRICA events!

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🚰 Investigating how exclusion from public services can lead to spillover effects and unintended externalities by @bancalaria.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social

"Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities"

Co-authors: Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, and Maitreesh Ghatak

#EconDev

📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13

Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows

Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...

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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US [FREE TO READ] In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins

Rethinking foreign aid: In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments outside of the US, multilateral institutions, and philanthropists to take the lead on impactful and cost-effective foreign aid. buff.ly/gRYRszI

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics | Institute for Fiscal Studies The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week.

I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.

Cutting Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GDP means that a massive fraction of our aid budget will be spent in the UK on accommodation for asylum seekers. I don't have an up to date estimate, but could easily be half. Leaves much, much less for "traditional" aid.

Shocking 😢

i just made the mistake of reading the comments on a NYT article on foreign aid.

My god, some people are just way too dumb to understand how lucky they are to have been born in a rich country. Not better or more deserving, just lucky. It's so simple and obvious.

Call for papers: IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 | Institute for Fiscal Studies Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025

Workshop alert 🚨

Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15!

News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟

ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

@papiteide.bsky.social

Call for papers: IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 | Institute for Fiscal Studies Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025

Workshop alert 🚨

Submit your paper on health economics focused on LMICs by Feb 15!

News: ADBI will sponsor 3 presenters whose work aligns with their research agenda to come to present in London @theifs.bsky.social 🌟

ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities.

He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous.

@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

The claim that only 10% of USAID money reaches its intended beneficiaries is wrong.

@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & @justsand.bsky.social look at where the figure originates, why it doesn’t show what critics claim, & why it offers no pretext for shutting down USAID:
www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

Today on VoxDev, Antonella Bancalari (Institute for Fiscal Studies) & Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) outline their research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🆕 Electronic waste is a silent killer in West Africa

Today on VoxDev, Stefania Lovo and Sam Rawlings (University of Reading) outline evidence from Ghana and Nigeria which shows that e-waste dumping is causing a health crisis: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Call for papers: IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 | Institute for Fiscal Studies Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025

Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at: ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

Call for papers: IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 | Institute for Fiscal Studies Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025

Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at:
ifs.org.uk/events/call-...

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The windfalls spurred growth in sectors beyond those directly serving municipalities, highlighting a multiplier effect.
📈For every $1 municipalities receive as windfalls, roughly $2.79–$3.86 is generated in the local economy.

The windfalls particularly benefitted poorer rural areas, leading to:
🏡Household income and consumption gains.
📉Poverty reduction.

Effects on employment by distance to closes extractive activity (quartiles)

In addition to increases in public employment, we find private-sector improvements in:
✅Employment
✅Earnings and formal employment.
✅Microenterprise activity.
Particularly evident in non-extractive municipalities located farther from extractive activity.

These resource windfalls (known as Canon) increased municipal spending on public infrastructure, boosting local economies through two main channels:
1⃣Hiring low-skilled workers
2⃣Demanding local goods and services