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New articles comparing key PEP-PAGE findings
November 2017
PEP has published a series of articles comparing key findings from PAGE (2012-2016) projects focused on similar themes but from different countries and regions.
PEP Online Training Program: Applied Development Economics
Register by November 30, 2017
PEP is offering three online distance-learning courses in Applied Development Economics, in collaboration with Université Laval in Canada, from January to April, 2018.
PEP presentations at the 3rd IZA/DFID GLM-LIC Research Conference in the USA
October 19-20, 2017 | Washington D.C., USA
PEP Executive Director, Prof Jane Mariara, and PEP Research Director, Luca Tiberti, presented papers at the 3rd IZA/DFID GLM-LIC Research Conference on New Research on Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries.
Putting Children First event calls for action to tackle child poverty
October 23, 2017 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Prof Jane Mariara, Executive Director of PEP, made a keynote speech at the ‘Putting Children First’ conference in Ethiopia. The conference theme was identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa.
PEP Research Director, Maria Laura Alzua, appointed Deputy Director of CEDLAS
October 2017 | La Plata, Argentina
PEP Research Director, Maria Laura Alzua, was appointed Deputy Director of CEDLAS
PEP board member to become LACEA President Emeritus in November 2017
October 2017
PEP Board Member, Nora Lustig, will receive the title of President Emeritus of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association during their annual meeting to be held in Argentina, November 9-11, 2017.
PEP researcher presents at 8th Business and Entrepreneurship in Africa Conference
October 6, 2017 | Richmond, USA
PEP researcher, Dr Abdoulaye Seck, presented his findings at the 8th Annual Conference on Business and Entrepreneurship in Africa.
Women at high risk of poverty in rural Africa
October 15, 2017
October 15 is the UN International Day of Rural Women, highlighting the critical role of rural women in eradicating poverty. PEP findings from four African countries identify key issues and poverty reduction strategies involving local women in rural areas.
How migration and remittances affect welfare and employment at home
October 2017
PEP projects from Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, and Senegal investigate the varied impacts of migration and remittances on welfare and employment.
Now available: A new user-friendly TBD microsimulation toolkit for distributive analysis
October 2017
PEP resource persons have developed a user-friendly "Stata-based toolkit to perform microsimulations combined with CGE models in a top-down fashion" and user manual. This material is now available to download, free of charge.