Applications are now open for the APE and PPD master programs at PSE! Prospective students often ask how to choose between the two. Both are research masters and potential gateways to a PhD, but their focus is different. For a side-by-side comparison: www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...
š Climate change, natural resources, and conflict: Navigating a complex nexus
Today on VoxDev, Oliver Vanden Eynde (@pse.bsky.social)ā¬ & @jvargas.bsky.social (Collegio Carlo Alberto) discuss how extreme weather and the green transition are reshaping global conflict: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
š Should roads and electricity infrastructure be built together?
Today on VoxDev, Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics) & Liam Wren-Lewis discuss how roads and electricity jointly deliver greater gains in agricultural productivity in rural India: https://ow.ly/TqLz50XTjUP
š Conflict and development š¢
Today on VoxDevTalks, @dominic-rohner.bsky.social (@gvagrad.bsky.social) & Oliver Vanden Eynde (@pse.bsky.social) discuss what we have learned from research on conflict and the key questions that remain unanswered: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
ReCIPE is launching its first virtual course this spring, featuring expert-led lectures on how conflict shapes economic growth & policy.
More details & register: recipe.cepr.org/event/virtua...
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š¢ReCIPEās First Call for Compact Research Grants is now open! New deadline: 14 August. Proposals exploring the links between conflict & economic growth within ReCIPE research themes and in ReCIPE focus countries are welcome.
More information here: recipe.cepr.org/funding/comp...
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The USAID shutdown was followed by a sharp increase in violence in African regions that relied most on USAID funding.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Also, ReCIPE has just launched its website. ReCIPE is a conflict-focused grant-giving programme, funded by FCDO and hosted by CEPR. It's the younger sibling of PEDL and STEG. The first call for funding will open in early 2025. For more info: recipe.cepr.org
Are you a PhD student working on conflict and economic development? We are looking for papers for the PhD poster session at the ReCIPE inception conference in PSE (13-14 February): recipe.cepr.org/event/4553. The deadline is 15 December. @cepr.org @dominic-rohner.bsky.social @pse.bsky.social
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Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...
š Applications are open for the APE & PPD Masters at PSE!
š APE: Master economic analysis & policy-making
š PPD: Evaluate & design impactful public policies
š Apply before March 13, 2025!
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ReCIPE is a research initiative funded by FCDO that focuses on how public policies can mitigate and prevent conflict. Our programme supports rigorous and quantitative research, and aims to identify practical economic policies that can help reduce conflict.
In rural India, roads and electricity complement each other, with their joint provision delivering far greater gains in dry-season agricultural productivity, assets, and consumption than either investment alone.
