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Elina Ribakova
elinaribakova
1/ #COVID19 “upends the wisdom about remittances being very stable” “The countries where migrant workers are temporarily based are experiencing a big crisis, and many of them are in the
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maria ⏳
1maria_ml
So World Bank issued “pandemic bonds” in 2017 with an interest rate of 12% that were set to mature in July 2020, with one catch: If “coronavirus“ became a pandemic
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sathvik
sathviknishanth
A tale of two countries: India vs China/ Airline Pax #rstats using WDI package A tale of two countries, this time: Ireland's dramatics rise in terms of Airline Pax -
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David Mihalyi
davidmihalyi
About a decade ago a group of countries in Africa were thought to be on the verge of becoming rich from petroleum. In fresh #WB report with @thomasscurfield we analyzed
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Srikanth ஸ்ரீகாந்த்
logic
If only, you don't take away agency in the first place, you don't need to think of restoring agency.https://twitter.com/SocietalPlatfrm/status/1324593764522848256 But who made ID linking to school mandatory @SocietalPlatfrm ? Who
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özlem altınkaya
ozlem_altinkaya
"But if we’re going to have cities and the coronavirus, maybe the future is 1922, not 2022."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/cities-density-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share several counter-arguments on the urban density-COVID relati
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David Evans
DaveEvansPhD
**HOW MUCH DOES THAT INTERVENTION COST?**I just moderated a @CEGA_UC panel with editors from four economics or development journals about how to make cost data more prevalent in studies and
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nic carter
nic__carter
On a serious note is there a risk of sovereign defaults from nations that rely heavily on oil exports? Here's 2018 data for heavily exposed countriesh/t @timpastoor for the idea
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Maitreyi Bordia Das
DasMaitreyi
Today’s session on women and “natural disasters” spawned this thread in my head. I mean. The thoughts were there. The thread is here.Let me start w 2 tropes. 1.Women are
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Not atmanirbhar only नेहरू पर निर्भर feku😅
UnderratedPappu
Some achievements of Nehru:*Famine deaths stopped and poverty came down to 59% from 70%*Children enrollment in schools increased by 150%. It took another 40 years for the next 150% jump.*
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Elin Martinez
Martinez_Elin
With all due respect to @nitabhalla, the article's title is misleading. Pregnant girls will not be able to attend school, they will only be able to attend alternative education centres
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tolu ogunlesi
toluogunlesi
HIGHLIGHTS: —PMB has approved estab of N500 billion COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund—Revision of 2020 Budget Benchmarks—FGN will tap Budget funding from World Bank, AfDB, IDB etc—N102.5bn for direct healthcare interventions
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Bed Tea Tagore
sohinichat
I hear an inherent sneer when Indians, news orgs says: "Even Bangladesh's economy is doing better than India."Why this "even"? The polite way to see this "even" is that it
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tyro
DoubleEph
What if you focused on Nigerian Police Colleges for overhaul? Potentially, you can start seeing results in under 2 years and it will cost almost nothing #EndSARS How does
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Gautam v
vgautam76
@PMOIndia @narendramodi @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia @realDonaldTrump @NicolasMaduro @AbeShinzo @IndiaVenezuela @WorldBank @GitaGopinath @DasShaktikanta @RBI @loksabhaspeaker @rashtrapatibhvn @VPSecretariat @NITIAayog @amitabhk87 @RNTata2000 Please see
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Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab
saragoldrickrab
Most common neoliberal remedy to student debt? Financial education.Guess what? Doesn’t work. Except for rich kids.Those living the CREAM life already know the value of a dollar.https://twitter.com/danielmangrum/status/1197534949651275776 Many college
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