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Leo Iacovone

@leoiacovone.bsky.social
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Leo Iacovone @leoiacovone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia can reach high-income status only if firms are able to grow, innovate, and compete. The @WorldBank’s #GreaterHeights report provides recommendations for how the region can unleash the private sector. www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...
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Greater Heights: Growing to High Income in Europe and Central Asia
The Greater Heights: Growing to High Income in Europe and Central Asia report outlines recommendations for how middle-income countries across the region can reach their growth goals.
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In today's blog, I summarize 7-7.5 year impacts of a RCT we did in Togo that tested personal initiative (PI) training against a control and traditional business training. PI training has large and growing impacts for men, which diverge from those for women 1/3 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender
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NBER @nber.org · 01/03/2025
Working from home has stabilized at about 25 percent of all full worked days in the US according to a new analysis of 9 different US datasets, from Shelby R. Buckman, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, and Steven J. Davis www.nber.org/papers/w33508
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
We need to be honest with people who want to get PhDs and not just about the job market lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...
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