Tag Archives: covid

 Da Micromega on line. Apertura atenei: adelante con juicio di Sergio Cesaratto Studenti e docenti sono ancora nell’incertezza circa la riapertura degli Atenei il prossimo settembre, e soprattutto circa “quale riapertura”. Se studenti e docenti risultano totalmente esclusi dalle decisioni, essi non appaiono peraltro unanimi nel merito. Gli atenei, a loro volta, sembrano procedere in ordine sparso, in ossequio al modello delle autonomie disordinate che pare prevalere nel Paese. Una...

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Last week I mentioned the new COVID research RECOVR hub, which was still in development. This week it’s been launched officially, to help development researchers share information about ongoing studies, survey instruments, and funding opportunities. If you are doing related work, please share or have a look at what other researchers are doing so we can build on one another’s work. A great initiative from the Busara Center, “Give...

1) Politicamente Scorretti 7: intervista al prof. Sergio Cesaratto CSEPI 2)  Presentazione delle Sei lezioni con la prof.ssa Lilia Costabile (allieva di Augusto Graziani) organizzato da Rethinking Economics Pisa (inizia al minuto 11 circa) Buona visione

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action First some good news – congratulations to development economist and dewormer Ted Miguel, social psychologist of diversity and justice Jennifer Richeson, gynecologist and Nobel laureate, Denis Mukwege of the DRC, and the other newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For researchers working on (or interested in working on COVID in low- and middle-income countries): to facilitate collaboration, with...

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s a little tricky to write links when it feels like things are changing hourly. Here’s the main message to keep in mind for the research community – you can do more than idle your projects. COVID-19 will affect every aspect of development, health, education, entrepreneurship, mobile money, cash transfers, political systems and trust in authority. But, if you have a research expertise in some area of development, now’s the time...