Director’s message
Dear colleagues,
I am very pleased that CDES has successfully recruited new researchers who have finally been able to join us in Melbourne, following two years of border closures, and we have been busy conducting new research on climate change and sustainability issues.
We have now established an active agenda to enhance our collaboration with established and promising researchers across the world. We invite you to apply to our resident and non-resident fellow program.To learn more, please follow this link
We are also now teaching courses jointly with the Department of Economics, on subjects including: Randomized ControlledTrials (RCTs) for program and policy evaluation; measuring and understanding poverty, inequality and opportunity; and macroeconomic policy issues in developing countries.
In other news:
OurAnnual Report 2021 is now available.
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CDES has started a new blog, and we invite you to contribute. Please send blog posts or queries to BusEco-CDES@monash.edu.
Apaper co-authored by Wang Lee, “Revitalising the Silk Road:The Economic Effects of High-Speed Rail in Northwest China”, was named runner-up, Gregory Chow Best PaperAward at the 2022 Chinese Economists Society conference. We are engaging with policymakers and practitioners in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Indonesia to promote the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, address related learning losses, and understand the impact of climate change in theAsia-Pacific.
Wishing you the very best, and stay well and safe.
Regards, ProfessorAsad Islam Director, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES)
Our Impact
CDES Working Paper series
Our researchers have recently started these working papers: Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental SkillTraining Centrality-Based Spillover Effects
Can public recognition reward backfire? Field experimental evidence on the retention and performance of volunteers Deadweight losses or gains from in-kind transfers? Experimental evidence from India
Learn more about our working papers and policy briefs
Recent external grants
Projects
New grant from J-PAL's Social Protection Initiative: “Investigating the impacts of climatic shockresponsive social protection in Fiji” –EmiliaTjernström
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New grant from King ClimateAction Initiative (K-CAI) at J-PALentitled “Sustainable spillovers: the health and environmental impacts of solar energy adoption” – EmiliaTjernström
Investing in Women: Gendered Impacts of MSME Policy Responses to COVID-19 in South EastAsia (2022)
In collaboration with researchers from each of the three countries and based on field work conducted from July 2021 to January 2022, the study examined the different experiences of women and men in the MSME sector during the pandemic.The study examined how women and men have been consulted in policy design; the gender breakdown of beneficiaries of the policy support; the types of support measures which benefited women the most.The final reports are available here.
More on our projects and grants
Climate change and sustainability
Learn more about our impactful and timely research investigating the effects of climate change.
Recent publications
“Public support in the United States for global equity in vaccine pricing”, authors include Gaurav Datt andAsad Islam.
“Filling a niche?The maize productivity impacts of adaptive breeding by a local seed company in Kenya”, authors include Emilia Tjernström. “Neighborhood Crime and Infant Health”, authors include Umair Khalil.
More publications
In the media
Is the world more dangerous now than it’s ever been?
Security deposit rule discourages women from running for polls
Gender-caste intersectionality in discrimination: Do patients care about doctor’s social identity?
Play activities lifting Rohingya children's spirits in Bangladesh refugee camps,Asad Islam’s interview with SBS News.
Sisira Jayasuriya was interviewed by Channel NewsAsia (CNA) on the Sri Lanka crisis.
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Recent presentations
“India’s Progress in Poverty Reduction:AStocktaking”; Gaurav Datt “Dual Circulation and Population Mobility During the Pandemic in China”; Wang Lee
“Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees”;Asad Islam
“Deadweight Losses or Gains from In-kind Transfers? Experimental Evidence from India”; Gaurav Datt
“Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution Evidence from an RCTduring the Covid-19 pandemic”;Asad Islam
“Social Media, ScreenTime, andAdolescent Mental Health”; Umair Khalil
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