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.

New EGC affiliate Leah Boustan analyzes US historical data to evaluate contemporary narratives around immigration.

The academy honors outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. This year, 30 International Fellows have been elected from universities in the United States, Ireland, South Africa,...

EGC affiliate Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg penned a commentary in Project Syndicate on how financial markets have mitigated the impact of recent tariff threats and what may happen next.

Research by EGC affiliate Amit Khandelwal and coauthors finds that language barriers constrain knowledge transfer within multinational corporations operating in low- and middle-income countries, limit...

Carbon offset programmes aim to lower emissions by allowing high-income countries to meet part of their reduction targets by financing projects in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence from China...

A market for air pollution was scaled to reach over 15 million people in Gujarat, India.

Gérardine Mukeshimana, Mark Rosenzweig, and Christopher Udry dissect one of Africa’s most persistent development challenges: the low productivity of small farms. Despite decades of investment, innovation, and policy reform, yields on African small farms remain significantly below those in high-income countries—even when similar technologies are used.

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...