Robert Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, delivered the keynote address to the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly Oct. 4.The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the U.N. General Assembly is...
Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed to understand and communicate the development potential of...
Robert B. Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, February 9. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place at Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, at 4:15 p.m.The format of the talk, which is hosted by...
In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Microcredit, which involves giving small loans to very small businesses in an effort to promote entrepreneurship, has been widely touted as a way to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth. A multitude of both non- and for-profit institutions are...
