# Rachel Glennerster

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EAG 2018 London: Fireside chat with Rachel Glennerster

A fireside chat with Rachel Glennerster, moderated by Nathan Labenz, from EA Global 2018: London. Subscribe to our channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEfA…Find out how to attend EA Global:https://www.eaglobal.org/. Join our Facebook community:https://www.facebook.com/effectivealt…

S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan

Wherever Roshaneh Zafar went in Pakistan in the early 1990s, documenting World Bank social development projects, women told her the same thing: the water and sanitation are fine, but what about economic opportunity? Zafar tells Tim Phillips how that question led her to train with Muhammad Yunus a…

S4 Ep4: Has development economics lost its way?

What should development economists be working on – and how does their work actually reach the people making decisions? Rachel Glennerster, President of the Center for Global Development, whose career spans the research and policy sides of development, joins Oliver Hanney to discuss her proposal f…

S7 Ep35: Ideas in Development: Has development economics lost its way?

This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney’s conversations on evidence. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EacHFVRt9p4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod…

Women and Work in South Asia with Seema Jayachandran

CGD's Rachel Glennerster speaks with Princeton's Seema Jayachandran about how gender inequality can manifest differently in different regions, why GDP and labor access don't necessarily align, and what the research shows about how to increase women's access to jobs.

Rethinking How to Boost Learning in Africa with Kwame Akyeampong and Rachel Glennerster

CGD's David Evans and Rachel Glennerster speak with Kwame Akyeampong, professor at the Open University, about his book Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa. Together they discuss where the book and the evidence consensus agree and diverge: the framing of the learning crisis, measuring st…

664. Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?

Existing drugs can sometimes be repurposed to treat rare diseases. But making that match can be hard — and the financial incentives are weak. Guest host Steve Levitt tries to solve the puzzle.   SOURCES: Chris Snyder, professor of economics at Dartmouth College. David Fajgenbaum, co-founder an…

What We're Watching at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings

CGD's Clemence Landers presents highlights from our recent event on what to watch at the Annual Meetings next week. She was joined at the event by CGD's Rachel Glennerster, Markus Goldstein, and Mikaela Gavas, as well as Devex's Adva Saldinger. Together they examined how the World Bank and the IMF …