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Emanuela Galasso
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Development economist - World Bank’s Development Research Group https://sites.google.com/site/decrgemanuelagalasso/

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Jun 19
From @nickkristof.bsky.social: "'We have a whole set of solutions,' said Shawn Baker of Helen Keller Intl, which works in nutrition and blindness. He noted that a recent World Bank study estimated that each $1 invested in nutrition yields a return of $23.
Try finding a hedge fund with that return."
Opinion | This Problem Is Easy to Solve
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · May 30
This week's links include what everyday life for a World Bank researcher looks like, getting grumpy with teamwork on hot days, when giving cash backfired, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links May 30: meta-CCT lessons, reasons to remain skeptical of much social science, heat is bad for teams, and more..
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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · May 6
For measuring costs, administrative data are not enough! documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati... In Brazil, admin data alone would have overestimated costs of an early childhood development program even while *missing* key cost elements.
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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · Apr 17
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 6
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Mar 31
Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas.
#EconSky
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Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (Gift Article)
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Markus Goldstein @markusgold.bsky.social · Mar 21
My colleague @charlesjkenny.bsky.social offers some trenchant thoughts on the reality of waste, fraud and corruption in US foreign assistance: www.cgdev.org/blog/thinkin...
Thinking Through Waste, Fraud and Corruption in US Foreign Assistance
The US Administration has presented a weak case for its argument that US foreign assistance was so riddled with abuse and fraud that the only answer was to shut down USAID and reboot. The lists of ter...
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · Mar 16
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Mar 13
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Mar 6
"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Mar 3
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...
Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 1
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · Feb 28
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 28
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · Feb 26
The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...
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Michael Klein @mwkleinphd.bsky.social · Feb 22
The US lags behind other rich countries in health outcomes @econofact.bsky.social contributions by Amy Finkelstein, @michaelkremer.bsky.social @melissakearney00.bsky.social @marksheppard.bsky.social & @willmasters.bsky.social cited in this @econofact Weekend Reading eepurl.com/i-sJU-/
Weekend Reading - Health in the United States
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Feb 22
Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion | ‘We Are Seeing Complete Destruction’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze
Testimonials from around the world show that Trump’s foreign aid funding freeze has been damaging and chaotic.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Feb 21
Migration does not have to be what it is now

Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected

In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships

The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
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Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · Feb 20
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition from @nutritionorg.bsky.social has a clear-eyed review of how cutting USAID and WHO affects U.S. interests in health, from an all-star team of authors: AJCN editor-in-chief Chris Duggan, Lindsey Locks, Dan Hoffman and @christinestewart.bsky.social
A shock to the global nutrition system: Why nutrition scientists should challenge the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development and US withdrawal from the World Health Organization
Imagine a world where over 1 million children across 85 countries died from a single nutrient deficiency — deaths that could be prevented with a semi-annual vitamin supplement. Millions of lives saved...
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Science Magazine @science.org · Feb 18
This morning, the National Science Foundation fired 168 probationary employees, effective immediately. The number represents roughly 10% of its workforce.

Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi
Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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Guo Xu @guoxu.bsky.social · Feb 14
I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...
Is the U.S. Civil Service really broken? What the research says about bureaucratic efficiency and reform - Haas News | Berkeley Haas
The Trump administration is pursuing sweeping changes to the federal workforce, aiming to increase political control over civil servants and reduce the size of the bureaucracy. The new Department of G...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Feb 13
In Nigeria toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers have run out of nutrient-rich paste used to save lives of severely malnourished children
Ebola outbreak in Uganda has spread to 3 cities.
@nickkristof.bsky.social on consequences of USAID chaos so far www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | It’s America That Suffers When We Cut Foreign Aid
U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.
www.nytimes.com
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Feb 12
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Feb 6
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · Feb 6
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 28
"Growing bodies of social science evidence make increasingly clear how identity politics … is good economic policy," argues Rohini Pande in a #ScienceExpertVoices article.

Read more: scim.ag/4gcIv9S
"… identity politics at a fundamental level, is driven, and dominated, by economic concerns." - Rohini Pande, Yale University
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Jan 10
The first links of the new year are up, with discussions of the field of development economics, issues around PAPs and HC3 errors, funding for work on women's digital connectivity, lessons from the failed scaling of an early community development program & more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Weekly links January 10, 2025: debating development as a field, learning from early community development, HC3 vs randomization-p, and more….
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