When I first met Princess, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a tiny concrete room in Davao City on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, her notebook open to a page covered in neat rows ...

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When I first met Princess, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a tiny concrete room in Davao City on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, her notebook open to a page covered in neat rows ...

Call for Papers: 19th Conference on Migration and Development. Deadline Feb 8, 2026...

Join this talk to discover innovative approaches and policies aimed at overcoming the challenges of living in remote rural areas.

New research from Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak shows that the violence and looting in rice-growing areas is tied to rice prices, suggesting an economic motivation for the attacks, and finds that the gov...

EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak authored a commentary in Financial Times on how mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places.

Internal migration of agricultural workers in India leads to a downsizing of farms near cities and an expansion in remote areas, prompting a spatial reorganisation of agriculture whereby remote, non-m...

Mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places

While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. Analysing Indian data, this article shows...

The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.

Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

When skilled workers from poorer countries migrate to wealthy ones, there are benefits for the origin countries as well as workers and the host countries, according to new research co-authored by Yale...

Development economist Mushfiq Mobarak explains how implementing new ideas can be complicated by politics, unintended consequences, and the complexities of human behavior.

How does emigration of highly educated citizens of low-income countries to high-income countries affect the economies of the origin countries? The direct effect is “brain drain”—a decrease in the coun...

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW...

The philanthropic foundation’s three-year, $18 million initiative supports interdisciplinary research into the causes of polarization and ways to mitigate it

The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk ...