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Two years ago, the first-ever Nobel symposium outside of Scandinavia was hosted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, a feat that was repeated last year and again in the past week.

The Madhya Pradesh Government’s initiative to set up specialised help desks for women in local police stations in the State which led to increased registration of gender-based violence and criminal cases, especially those staffed by female officers compared with those without, has earned global...

Study looks into farmers’ behaviour based on forecast information, insurance in 250 Telangana villages

New papers emphasize examining empirically how market frictions, risk and volatility, and other features of developing markets affect how firms use capital, labor, and managerial inputs, and may make it hard to say what the size of a firm is.

There are pervasive stereotypes that Americans who are low income and access government assistance are lazy, lack a work ethic and are even morally inferior. This stigma has been shown to have many negative consequences. But until now, there’s been little research on whether this stigma influences...