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Letter to Chief Minister Ludhiana students among 8,000 children who urge Punjab CM to take action for controlling air pollution ANI | Updated: Jun 05, 2021 23:46 IST Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 5 (ANI): More than 8,000 school students from different parts of Punjab, including Ludhiana, wrote to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on World Environment Day on Saturday urging him to take action for controlling air pollution. The demands from students predominantly echoed their right to clean air and the right to breathe. At the same time, it highlighted the fact that Punjab has some of the most polluted cities in India, namely Ludhiana, Khanna, Mandi Gobindgarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, and Patiala.
close share links People understand that earning less money makes you materially poorer. That’s an uncontroversial statement; it’s simple math. Less well understood, however, is the equation’s converse: How does being poor affect what you earn? Work smart with our Thinking Forward newsletter Insights from MIT experts, delivered every Tuesday morning. Email Address Frank Schilbach, an associate professor of economics at MIT, has given a lot of thought to this question. He has worked with low-income workers in India and other countries trying to understand how poverty and its attendant worries intrude on their day-to-day lives. “Perhaps unsurprisingly, financial concerns loom really large: How will I pay for school fees? Will I have enough to feed my children? Can I pay health care bills?” he said. “And the more we’ve heard this the more we’ve wondered how these concerns might affect behavior, particularly at work.”
Weekly links February 5: Poverty and productivity, Mobile money explained, who wants to migrate, and more… · The second VoxDevLit is out, this one is on mobile money, edited by Tavneet Suri and with a great group of co-editors – a great summary of what we have learned so far, and a call for more research “By the end of 2019, a total of 290 mobile money services were being offered in 95 countries; there were more than 1 billion mobile money accounts globally, including 372 million actively used for a transaction in the previous 90 days” “its use remains mostly limited to very specific P2P transactions: those that take place over long distances and those that are in places where holding cash is risky. Outside these applications, there has been less success” “Given that mobile money and, more broadly, a digital payments system has been so widely adopted in the developing world, and seeing that there are so few value-added services layered over it, there is a lot left to do and learn.”
Pixabay As Washington debates sending checks to Americans and increasing the minimum wage, a new study offers evidence for how such policies could help eliminate poverty. Obviously, giving more money to people without much money helps them with money problems. But the study adds to a growing body of research that says that money really does help workers earn more money. Sendhil Mullainathan is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and he outlined early evidence for this theory in Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, co-authored with Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir. Poverty, they find, is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use. "Put simply, being poor is like having just pulled an all-nighter," Mullainathan once told
‘s newsletter. You can . As Washington debates sending checks to Americans and increasing the minimum wage, a new study offers evidence for how such policies could help eliminate poverty. Obviously, giving more money to people without much money helps them with money problems. But the study adds to a growing body of research that says that money really does help workers earn more money. Sendhil Mullainathan is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and he outlined early evidence for this theory in Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, co-authored with Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir. Poverty, they find, is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use. “Put simply, being poor is like having just pulled an all-nighter,” Mullainathan once told
How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive By at 3:31 am NPR As Washington, D.C., debates sending checks to Americans and increasing the minimum wage, a new study offers evidence for how such policies could help eliminate poverty. Obviously, giving more money to people without much money helps them with money problems. But the study adds to a growing body of research that says that money really does help workers earn more money. Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. Sendhil Mullainathan is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and he outlined early evidence for this theory in Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, co-authored with Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir. Poverty, they find, is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use. "Put simply, being poor is like having just pulled an all-nighter," Mullainathan once told NPR. And that, he says, hurts their ability to escape poverty.