EfD and MCC will host side event at COP28
EfD and MCC will jointly host a side event at COP28 in Dubai. The event, which features an impressive line-up of speakers, will focus on carbon pricing and how it affects different social groups…
Join the Lancet Countdown Academic Leadership Team!
The Lancet Countdown is seeking to appoint globally recognised academic leaders to steer its new phase of increased ambition.
As it enters a new phase of increased ambition, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is seeking to appoint, through an open recruitment, five new Working Group Chairs and five new Working Group Co-Chairs, to steer its academic activities.
Vietnamese researchers explore randomized controlled trials in EfD workshop
Thirty-two Vietnamese researchers embarked on a journey into the world of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in a workshop organized by EfD on 3-4 November 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City. Under the…
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SETI co-leader Marc Jeuland opened the EfD Seminar Series
Marc Jeuland, applied environmental economist, presented his research titled Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the time that women spend obtaining firewood on November 15 at the launch of…
Policy Nook — Policy Note: Benefit Cost Analysis of Water Investments in the Anthropocene
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Introduction
Water management is becoming increasingly challenging. The core problem in many locations is an old one: water scarcity will increase as demand rises due to population and economic growth. Conditions in the modern Anthropocene — higher temperatures, continental drying, higher evaporation, and non-stationary hydrology — will add complexity.
Many attended EfD's inaugural webinar with Marc Jeuland
EfD kicked off its webinar series with a presentation on Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the time that women spend obtaining firewood by Marc Jeuland from Duke University. More than 70 people…
Kenneth Kigundu Macharia earns his doctorate in Economics.
Kenneth Kigundu Macharia successfully graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nairobi on Friday, 22nd September 2023. Presently, he holds a position as a lecturer at Chuka…
Business owners in Tanzania are willing to pay more for an improved electricity supply
Topic: Stated Preferences with Survey Consequentiality and Outcome Uncertainty: A Split Sample Discrete Choice Experiment
Research questions: How much are Tanzanian business enterprises willing to pay (WTP) for a better quality of electricity supply?
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If we miss the context policies may be toothless
Around the world, governments are fighting poverty, environmental degradation, and many other deprivations. Despite lacking resources and limited capacity, they have no choice but to try. Numerous policies and interventions are published every year: subsidies, promotion, social mobilization, and so on. Each policy looks great in writing, but many of them do not move at all. Hardly anyone in government can even answer how many such policies exist. These policies are adapted for the sake of satisfying populism or to show progress.