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News Posted: 05 September 2018 [
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The World Bank
published a
blog on the
work lead by STICERD director Professor Oriana Bandiera in collaboration with the
IGC, UCL
and
BRAC, on the subject of reducing extreme poverty.
Markus Goldstein, who is lead economist in the Office of Chief Economist in
the Africa Region at the World Bank, highlights the most important contributions that the recently
revised paper
"Labor Markets and
Poverty in Village Economies" makes to the question of lifting the ultra
poor.
The research, which looks at BRAC's Targeting the Ultra-Poor program
implemented in Bangladesh, shows that: (i) the poor are able to take on the work activities of the non-poor but face
barriers to doing so, and, (ii) one-off interventions that remove these barriers
lead to sustainable poverty reduction.
In his
blog, Goldsteing concludes that Professor Bandiera and her
colleagues "indicate a sustainable (and cost effective – see the paper for the
numbers) way to break poverty traps and map a clear and
sustainable trajectory out of poverty".
News Posted: 07 April 2016 [
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The Department
of International Development at the LSE will be hosting the 2016 Development
Debate on the topic Can Africa Industrialise?, featuring
micro-economist Professor John Sutton and political economist Professor Robert
Wade.
The event, which is organised by the Development Management Programme, will
take place on Monday 7th March at 6pm at the LSE (Clement
House, room 5.02).
John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the
London School of Economics, and Director of STICERD’s Economics of Industry
programme.
Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy and Development
at the LSE.
Prof. Sutton's
Enterprise Map Project aims at providing a detailed profile of industries and of
leading industrial companies in each of several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The first four volumes on Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia are now available
here:
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/sutton/
News Posted: 07 March 2016 [
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Florian Blum, PhD student at the Department of Economics and STICERD, was
awarded funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
to investigate the effect of central price-cap regulation on the quantity and
price of service provision within the public services.
The project will also estimate the optimal price-cap that maximises consumer
welfare.
News Posted: 04 March 2016 [
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